Magnetic properties of Zn1-x CoxO thin films grown by RF magnetron Co-sputtering in Ar and N2O atmosphere

IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 3995-3998

  Lee, J C ^a   Lee, Y H ^a   Min, J F ^a   Su, C W ^b   Lee, J S ^c   Hsu, H S ^c  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHIAYI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL PINGTUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Diluted magnetic semiconductor; magnetron sputtering; nitrogen doping; ZnCoO

Indexed keywords

ARGON; COBALT METALLOGRAPHY; DILUTED MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC PROPERTIES; MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; MAGNETRON SPUTTERING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; ORGANIC POLYMERS; PARAMAGNETISM; QUANTUM HALL EFFECT; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING; SPUTTERING; SQUIDS; THIN FILMS; ULTRAVIOLET VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY PHOTOELECTRON SPECTROSCOPY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION; ZINC METALLOGRAPHY;

C-AXIS-PREFERRED ORIENTATION; ELECTRICAL AND MAGNETIC PROPERTY; ELECTRON CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN-DOPING; RF-MAGNETRON CO-SPUTTERING; ROOM TEMPERATURE FERROMAGNETISM (RTFM); UV VISIBLE SPECTROSCOPY; ZNCOO;

SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS;

EID: 80053490743     PISSN: 00189464     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMAG.2011.2146243     Document Type: Article

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