Oxygen interstitials enhanced room temperature ferromagnetism in undoped zinc oxide

  • H. You
  • , J. Yang
  • , J. Y. Zhu
  • , W. F. Xu
  • , X. D. Tang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Pure zinc oxide (ZnO) particles fabricated by a simple aqueous solution route were treated with hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) solution. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) showed the homogeneous growth of particles throughout the substrate with the wurtzite phase. Magnetic properties were measured and a correlation between immersion time and ferromagnetism (FM) was observed. X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS) and photoluminescence (PL) were then performed to investigate the influence of hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) treatment on oxygen-related defects. It is revealed that oxygen interstitials (I O ) may be considered to be playing an important role in tailoring the magnetic properties of ZnO.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4455-4459
Number of pages5
JournalApplied Surface Science
Volume258
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Mar 2012

Keywords

  • Magnetic properties
  • Oxygen interstitials
  • ZnO

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