Room-temperature ferromagnetism observed in Nd-doped In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> dilute magnetic semiconducting nanowires

Room-temperature ferromagnetism observed in Nd-doped In₂O₃ dilute magnetic semiconducting nanowires

Lv Zhanpeng¹, Zhang Junran¹, Niu Wei¹, Zhang Minhao¹, Song Li², Zhu Hairong², Wang Xuefeng^{1, †,}

(a) Typical SEM image of Nd-doped In₂O₃ nanowires. (b) TEM image of a single Nd-doped In₂O₃ nanowire. (c) HRTEM image of a Nd-doped In₂O₃ nanowire. Inset shows the FFT of the HRTEM image, indicating the cubic bixbyite structure of In₂O₃. (d) XRD patterns of pure and Nd-doped In₂O₃ nanowires. Inset is the magnification of the (400) diffraction peak.