Graphene activating room-temperature ferromagnetic exchange in cobalt-doped ZnO dilute magnetic semiconductor quantum dots

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 10589-10596

  Sun, Zhihu ^a   Yang, Xiaoyu ^a   Wang, Chao ^a   Yao, Tao ^a   Cai, Liang ^a   Yan, Wensheng ^a   Jiang, Yong ^a   Hu, Fengchun ^a   He, Jingfu ^a   Pan, Zhiyun ^a   Liu, Qinghua ^a   Wei, Shiqiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Co doped ZnO QDs; ferromagnetic exchange; RGO; XAFS

Indexed keywords

COBALT; DILUTED MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; FERROMAGNETIC MATERIALS; FERROMAGNETISM; GRAPHENE; II-VI SEMICONDUCTORS; NANOCRYSTALS; OXIDE MINERALS; SEMICONDUCTING ZINC COMPOUNDS; WIDE BAND GAP SEMICONDUCTORS; ZINC OXIDE;

CO-DOPED ZNO; DILUTE MAGNETIC SEMICONDUCTORS; FERRO-MAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; FERROMAGNETIC EXCHANGE; MAGNETIC INTERACTIONS; OXYGEN-VACANCY COMPLEXES; QUANTUM CONFINEMENT EFFECTS; XAFS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 84908429204     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5040845     Document Type: Article

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