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Magnetic Properties of Transition Metal-implanted ZnO Nanotips Grown on Sapphire and Quartz
Journal of Magnetics, Volume 13, Number 1, 31 Mar 2008, Pages 19-22
Jeremy A. Raley(Department of Engineering Physics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB), Yung-Kee Yeo(Department of Engineering Physics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB), Robert L. Hengehold(Department of Engineering Physics, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB), Mee-Yi Ryu* (Department of Physics, Kangwon National University), Yicheng Lu(Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University), Pan Wu(Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University)
Abstract
ZnO nanotips, grown on c-Al2O3 and quartz, were implanted variously with 200 keV Fe or Mn ions to a dose level of 5×1016-2 . The magnetic properties of these samples were measured using a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer. Fe-implanted ZnO nanotips grown on c-Al2O3 showed a coercive field width of 209 Oe and a remanent field of 12% of the saturation magnetization (2.3×10-5emu) at 300K for a sample annealed at 700℃ for 20 minutes. The field-cooled and the zero-field-cooled magnetization measurements also showed evidence of ferromagnetism in this sample with an estimated Curie temperature of around 350 K. The Mn-implanted ZnO nanotips grown on c-Al2O3showed superparamagnetism resulting from the dominance of a spin-glass phase. The ZnO nanotips grown on quartz and implanted with Fe or Mn showed signs of ferromagnetism, but neither was consistent.
Keywords: ZnO nanotip; ferromagnetism; ion implantation; superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID)
DOI: 10.4283/JMAG.2008.13.1.19
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