Fluorine doping in dilute magnetic semiconductor Sn 1-x Fe xO 2

  • Aaron Thurber
  • , Jason Hays
  • , K. M. Reddy
  • , V. Shutthanandan
  • , Alex Punnoose

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Abstract

Recent studies have reported room-temperature ferromagnetism (FM) in Fe doped SnO 2. The FM in semiconductors due to transition metal doping has been argued to be carrier mediated. Fluorine (F) doping in pure SnO 2 has been reported to significantly increase the carrier concentration. In this work, we investigated the role of F doping in the range from 0% to 0.79% on the FM of chemically synthesized single phase Sn 1-xFe xO 2 using X-ray diffraction, UV-Vis spectrophotometry, particle-induced X-ray emission, particle-induced gamma ray emission and magnetometry. The saturation magnetization M s (0.03 emu/g) increased by a factor of 2.5 and the lattice volume and band gap energy decreased by 0.35 Å 3 and 0.2 eV, respectively, with 0.67% F doping (F/Sn atom %) compared to the sample without any fluorine.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1151-1155
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics
Volume18
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2007

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