中国物理B ›› 2010, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (7): 77501-077501.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/19/7/077501

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Paramagnetism in Cu-doped ZnO

龚佑品1, 徐庆宇2, 郑晓红2   

  1. (1)Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, China; (2)Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China
  • 收稿日期:2009-11-10 修回日期:2010-01-05 出版日期:2010-07-15 发布日期:2010-07-15
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50802041), the National Key Projects for Basic Research of China (Grant No. 2010CB923404), and Southeast University.

Paramagnetism in Cu-doped ZnO

Xu Qing-Yu(徐庆宇)a)†, Zheng Xiao-Hong(郑晓红)a), and Gong You-Pin(龚佑品) b)   

  1. a Department of Physics, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China; b Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210008, China
  • Received:2009-11-10 Revised:2010-01-05 Online:2010-07-15 Published:2010-07-15
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 50802041), the National Key Projects for Basic Research of China (Grant No. 2010CB923404), and Southeast University.

摘要: Zn0.98Cu0.02O powders are prepared by the sol—gel method. A small number of CuO impurity phases are observed by the x-ray diffraction, indicating the solubility of Cu in ZnO is less than 2 at.%. The Zn0.98Cu0.02O powders exhibit diamagnetism at 300 K and paramagnetism at 5 K. After subtracting the diamagnetic contribution of ZnO bulk and the paramagnetic contribution of defects, Cu ions exhibit weak paramagnetism. By codoping Cu with Co or Mn in ZnO, only paramagnetism is observed at room temperature.

Abstract: Zn0.98Cu0.02O powders are prepared by the sol—gel method. A small number of CuO impurity phases are observed by the x-ray diffraction, indicating the solubility of Cu in ZnO is less than 2 at.%. The Zn0.98Cu0.02O powders exhibit diamagnetism at 300 K and paramagnetism at 5 K. After subtracting the diamagnetic contribution of ZnO bulk and the paramagnetic contribution of defects, Cu ions exhibit weak paramagnetism. By codoping Cu with Co or Mn in ZnO, only paramagnetism is observed at room temperature.

Key words: diluted magnetic semiconductors, ZnO, paramagnetism, defects

中图分类号:  (Nonmetals)

  • 75.20.Ck
61.72.uj (III-V and II-VI semiconductors) 81.20.Ev (Powder processing: powder metallurgy, compaction, sintering, mechanical alloying, and granulation) 81.20.Fw (Sol-gel processing, precipitation) 64.75.-g (Phase equilibria) 75.50.Pp (Magnetic semiconductors)