effect of cr content on the properties of magnetic field processed cr-doped zno-diluted magnetic semiconductors铬含量对磁场的性质的影响加工cr-doped zno-diluted磁性半导体.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Nanomaterials Volume 2012, Article ID 501069, 7 pages doi:10.1155/2012/501069 Research Article Effect of Cr Content on the Properties of Magnetic Field Processed Cr-Doped ZnO-Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors Shiwei Wang, Weiqiang Bo, Min Zhong, Cong Liu, Ying Li, Mingyuan Zhu, Yemin Hu, and Hongmin Jin Laboratory for Microstructures, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai University, 149 Yanchang Road, Shanghai 200072, China Correspondence should be addressed to Shiwei Wang, wenruru@ Received 9 May 2012; Accepted 5 June 2012 Academic Editor: Renzhi Ma Copyright © 2012 Shiwei Wang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Cr-doped ZnO-diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) nanocrystals with various Cr contents were synthesized by hydrothermal method under high magnetic field. The result indicated that both the amount of Cr contents and high magnetic field significantly influenced crystal structure, morphology, and magnetic property of Cr-doped ZnO DMSs. When the Cr contents increased from 1 at% to 5 at%, the morphology of grains sequentially changed from flower-like to rod-like and then to the flake-like form. All the samples remained hexagonal wurtzite structure after Cr ions were doped into the ZnO crystal lattice. The Cr doping led to the increasing amount of defects and even enhanced the magnetic property of the matrix materials. All the Cr-doped ZnO DMSs obtained under high magnetic field exhibited obvious ferromagnetic behavior at room temperature. The results have also shown the successful substitution of the Cr3+ ions for the Zn