contrasting behavior of the structural and magnetic properties in mn- and fe-doped in2o3 films
;Qi Feng;Harry J. Blythe;Feng-Xian Jiang;Xiao-Hong Xu;Steve M. Heald;A. Mark Fox;Gillian A. Gehring
Frontiers in nutrition2013Vol. 1pp. 022107-022107
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feng2013aplcontrasting
Abstract
We have observed room temperature ferromagnetism in In2O3 thin films doped with either 5 at.% Mn or Fe, prepared by pulsed laser deposition at substrate temperatures ranging from 300 to 600 °C. The dependence of saturation magnetization on grain size was investigated for both types of In2O3 films. It is revealed that, for the Mn-doped films, the magnetization was largest with small grains, indicating the importance of grain boundaries. In contrast, for Fe-doped films, the largest magnetization was observed with large grains.