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Designing of room temperature diluted ferromagnetic Fe doped diamond semiconductor

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Publication Date2022-07-14
JournalFunctional Diamond
AuthorsTianwei Li, Jianxin Hao, Wei Cao, Tingting Jia, Zhenxiang Cheng
InstitutionsWuhan Institute of Technology, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology

Semiconductor devices generally take advantage of the charge of electrons, whereas magnetic materials are used for recording information involving electron spin. To make use of both charge and spin of electrons in semiconductors, a high concentration of magnetic elements can be introduced in nonmagnetic III-V semiconductors to make magnetic semiconductor. In this work, Fe-Diamond was obtained with low solubility by modified microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition technique. Magnetic measurements revealed that the magnetic transition temperature from paramagnetic to ferromagnetic-like is above room temperature. The bandgap of Fe-Diamond is calculated to be 1.65 eV, which indicates that Fe-Diamond is a room temperature diluted ferromagnetic semiconductor.