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  • Title: Theoretical model investigating the magnetic properties of cobalt-doped ZnO.
    Author: Sun SJ, Baczewski LT, Wojnar P, Xiao DW, Chou H, Hsu HS, Chin YY.
    Journal: J Phys Condens Matter; 2020 May 20; 32(22):225801. PubMed ID: 31968316.
    Abstract:
    We propose a theoretical model to investigate the magnetic properties of cobalt-doped ZnO (ZnO:Co) thin films qualitatively. The model was built on the dilute Co dopants in the host of ZnO forming the magnetic Co+2 ions and the energy level of the magnetic ions crossing the band edge of ZnO resulting in a magnetic interaction between the Co+2 spins and the spins of the electrons from the conduction band of ZnO. The mechanism of the ferromagnetism revealed in the studied system is proposed here to be induced not only by the mediated conducting electrons via spin interactions but also by the Coulomb excitations, arising from the electrons localized by the oxygen vacancies. This approach of including Coulomb excitation in the modified carrier-mediated model could explain well the magnetic properties of ZnO:Co and solves the drawback of the carrier-mediated model in interpreting the appearance of ferromagnetism in the insulating ZnO:Co. We propose that the Coulomb excitations induced by the electrons captured by the oxygen vacancies are an essential element in the magnetic ZnO, which reveals the fact that the bound magnetic polaron model without considering the Coulomb excitation is insufficient to describe the magnetic properties of ZnO.
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