Room temperature ferromagnetism in ZnO films due to defects

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 8, 2008, Pages

  Xu, Qingyu ^a   Schmidt, Heidemarie ^a   Zhou, Shengqiang ^a   Potzger, Kay ^a   Helm, Manfred ^a   Hochmuth, Holger ^b   Lorenz, Michael ^b   Setzer, Annette ^b   Esquinazi, Pablo ^b   Meinecke, Christoph ^b   Grundmann, Marius ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURIE TEMPERATURE; DEFECTS; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETORESISTANCE; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; SAPPHIRE; SQUIDS; ZINC OXIDE;

FERROMAGNETIC LOOPS; INTRINSIC DEFECTS; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

THIN FILMS;

EID: 40049096779     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2885730     Document Type: Article

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