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Electronic Structure and Magnetic Properties of Ti-doped ZnO

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2011

Soumia Lardjane ,
Ghouti Merad  and
Houda Imane Faraoun
Soumia Lardjane
Affiliation:
s_lardjane@mail.univ-tlemcen.dz, A. Belkaid Uniersity, LEPM-URMER, Tlemcen, Algeria
Ghouti Merad
Affiliation:
g_merad@mail.univ-tlemcen.dz, A. Belkaid Uniersity, LEPM-URMER, Tlemcen, Algeria
Houda Imane Faraoun
Affiliation:
h_faraoun@mail.univ-lemcen.dz, A. Belkaid Uniersity, LEPM-URMER, Tlemcen, Algeria
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Abstract

Recent experiments suggest that Ti doped ZnO can be a promising room temperature dilute magnetic semiconductor (DMS) and a potentially useful material for spintronic devices. Furthermore, the fact that Ti doped ZnO shows ferromagnetic behaviour despite it contains no magnetic element makes this system good candidate for theoretical investigation regarding the controversies about the origin of ferromagnetic ordering in TM-doped ZnO. In this work, the density functional theory (DFT) is used to calculate the electronic and magnetic structures of Ti-doped ZnO. The obtained results are used to discuss the origin of the ferromagnetism, and the contribution of different atoms in the magnetic moment.

Keywords

spintronicferromagneticelectronic structure
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Research Article
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1183: Symposium FF – Novel Materials and Devices for Spintronics , 2009 , 1183-FF10-14
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2009

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