Room-temperature ferromagnetism in hydrogenated ZnO nanoparticles
Room-temperature ferromagnetism in hydrogenated ZnO nanoparticles
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DOI:
10.1063/1.4862306
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发表时间:
2014-01
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
X. Xue;Liangliang Liu;Zhuo Wang;Yichu Wu
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作者:
X. Xue;Liangliang Liu;Zhuo Wang;Yichu Wu
The effect of hydrogen doping on the magnetic properties of ZnO nanoparticles was investigated. Hydrogen was incorporated by annealing under 5% H2 in Ar ambient at 700 °C. Room-temperature ferromagnetism was induced in hydrogenated ZnO nanoparticles, and the observed ferromagnetism could be switched between “on” and “off” states through hydrogen annealing and oxygen annealing process, respectively. It was found that Zn vacancy and OH bonding complex (VZn + OH) was crucial to the observed ferromagnetism by using the X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and positron annihilation spectroscopy analysis. Based on first-principles calculations, VZn + OH was favorable to be presented due to the low formation energy. Meanwhile, this configuration could lead to a magnetic moment of 0.57 μB. The Raman and photoluminescence measurements excluded the possibility of oxygen vacancy as the origin of the ferromagnetism.