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1Department of Physics, Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar, Punjab 140104, India. dr.hitesh.phys@gmail.com
Abstract:
We investigate the ferromagnetism in ZnO clusters due to vacancy defects and C impurities doped at substitutional O or Zn sites, and interstitial sites. The total energy calculations suggest C at the O site is more stable than that at the Zn site in ZnO clusters. The total magnetic moments of Zn(n)O(n-m)C(m) clusters are 2.0 μ(B)/C. However, when two C atoms are bonded to the same Zn atom they interact antiferromagnetically and the total magnetic moment becomes less than 2.0 μ(B)/C. The interstitial C defects in ZnO clusters induce small magnetic moments. The combination of substitutional and interstitial C defects in ZnO clusters leads to magnetic moments of 0.0-2.0 μ(B)/C. The presence of vacancy defects in addition to substitutional C defects gives magnetic moments of greater than 2.0 μ(B)/C. These results suggest that the experimentally observed sample dependence of magnetic moments in ZnO systems is largely due to the different concentrations of substitutional and interstitial C impurities and the presence of vacancy defects in ZnO samples prepared under different growth conditions.
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