The role of unintentional hydrogen on magnetic properties of Co doped ZnO
Abstract
The correlation between the positioning of hydrogen and magnetic properties of Co doped ZnO are investigated using ab initio methodology. It is found that hydrogen can both sit in interstitial Zn-O mid bonds and substitute oxygen forming multicentre bonds with zinc. However the substitutional hydrogen is slightly more stable by 0.37 eV than the interstitial hydrogen. It is also found that mobile hydrogen ions in ZnO are trapped by Co ions or Co complexes to form variety of highly stable Co-H complexes in ZnO host lattice. Charge transfer from hydrogen to neighboring Co's 3d orbitals leads to both the stabilization of ferromagnetic ordering among Co ions and the reduction of Co ion magnetic moment.
- Publication:
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Physics of Semiconductors: 30th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors
- Pub Date:
- December 2011
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.3666566
- Bibcode:
- 2011AIPC.1399..693A
- Keywords:
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- hydrogen bonds;
- charge exchange;
- magnetic moments;
- density functional theory;
- 33.15.Fm;
- 34.70.+e;
- 75.20.Hr;
- 71.15.Mb;
- Bond strengths dissociation energies;
- Charge transfer;
- Local moment in compounds and alloys;
- Kondo effect valence fluctuations heavy fermions;
- Density functional theory local density approximation gradient and other corrections