Abnormal room temperature ferromagnetism in CuO-ZnO heterostructures: interface related or not?

作者:Gao, Daqiang; Zhang, Zhipeng; Li, You; Xia, Baorui; Shi, Shoupeng; Xue, Desheng*
来源:Chemical Communications, 2015, 51(6): 1151-1153.
DOI:10.1039/c4cc08485c

摘要

We report the new functionality of room temperature ferromagnetism in CuO-ZnO heterostructures. Magnetic measurement results indicate the CuO-ZnO heterostructures show enhanced ferromagnetism contrary to the pure CuO (ZnO) and the observed ferromagnetism is proportional to the interface counts for the film-heterostructures, providing proof of interface related ferromagnetism. Our study suggests that magnetically functional interfaces could be an entirely new and novel design of magnetic materials for emergent devices.