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arXiv 0812.2079cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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含磁性杂质和/或阳离子空位的未掺杂Cu2O微粉的磁性

Magnetic properties of undoped Cu2O fine powders with magnetic impurities and/or cation vacancies

Chinping Chen, Lin He, Lin Lai, Hua Zhang, Jing Lu, Lin Guo, Yadong Li

摘要:

采用不同的化学方法合成了三种不同尺寸和形貌的微米和亚微米级未掺杂的Cu_2 O半导体粉末。这些样品包括直径为200 nm的纳米球、尺寸为1微米的八面体和尺寸为800 nm的多面体。它们表现出广泛的磁性。在低温(T = 5 K)下,八面体样品是抗磁性的.纳米球是顺磁性的。另外两个多面体样品在不同的运行通过相同的过程中合成的发现,显示出不同的磁性。其中一种样品具有弱铁磁性,T_C = 455 K,饱和磁化强度在T = 5 K时为0.19 emu/g,另一种样品具有顺磁性。根据检测到的Fe、Co和Ni的杂质浓度估计的总磁矩太小,无法解释观测到的一到两个数量级的磁性。通过密度泛函理论(DFT)计算表明,Cu 2 O晶格中的阳离子空位是产生感应磁矩的可能原因之一.结果进一步预言,当n_C超过12.5%时,缺陷引起的磁矩有利于铁磁耦合的基态。这为解释观测到的磁性提供了一个可能的方案。在目前的工作中,特别是在理论计算的调查的局限性,进行了讨论,并提出了进一步研究的可能领域。

英文摘要:

Fine powders of micron- and submicron-sized particles of undoped Cu2O semiconductor, with three different sizes and morphologies have been synthesized by different chemical processes. These samples include nanospheres 200 nm in diameter, octahedra of size 1 micron, and polyhedra of size 800 nm. They exhibit a wide spectrum of magnetic properties. At low temperature, T = 5 K, the octahedron sample is diamagnetic. The nanosphere is paramagnetic. The other two polyhedron samples synthesized in different runs by the same process are found to show different magnetic properties. One of them exhibits weak ferromagnetism with T_C = 455 K and saturation magnetization, M_S = 0.19 emu/g at T = 5 K, while the other is paramagnetic. The total magnetic moment estimated from the detected impurity concentration of Fe, Co, and Ni, is too small to account for the observed magnetism by one to two orders of magnitude. Calculations by the density functional theory (DFT) reveal that cation vacancies in the Cu2O lattice are one of the possible causes of induced magnetic moments. The results further predict that the defect-induced magnetic moments favour a ferromagnetically coupled ground state if the local concentration of cation vacancies, n_C, exceeds 12.5%. This offers a possible scenario to explain the observed magnetic properties. The limitations of the investigations in the present work, in particular in the theoretical calculations, are discussed and possible areas for further study are suggested.

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