A new diluted magnetic semiconductor: The half-metallic ferromagnet CoTi(1-x)Fe(x)Sb

作者:Balke Benjamin*; Kroth Kristian; Fecher Gerhard H; Felser Claudia
来源:Journal of Applied Physics, 2008, 103(7): 07D115.
DOI:10.1063/1.2837884

摘要

C1(b) compounds with 18 valence electrons are semiconducting. It will be shown that doping with electrons results in half-metallic ferromagnets, similar to the case of diluted semiconductors. CoTiSb is known to be a semiconducting C1(b) compound. Doping by Fe is expected to result in ferromagnetic order. It was found that Ti can be replaced by up to about 10% Fe while its crystal structure still remains C1(b), which was proved by x-ray powder diffraction. Superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry revealed a magnetic moment of 0.32 mu(B)/unit cell at 5 K.

  • 出版日期2008-4-1