Ferromagnetism in proton irradiated 4H-SiC single crystal
Author(s) -
Ren-Wei Zhou,
XueChao Liu,
Huajie Wang,
Weibin Chen,
Fei Li,
Shi-Yi Zhuo,
Shi Er-Wei
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
aip advances
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.421
H-Index - 58
ISSN - 2158-3226
DOI - 10.1063/1.4919611
Subject(s) - ferromagnetism , irradiation , materials science , proton , vacancy defect , condensed matter physics , single crystal , saturation (graph theory) , magnetization , wide bandgap semiconductor , crystallography , chemistry , nuclear physics , optoelectronics , physics , magnetic field , mathematics , combinatorics , quantum mechanics
Room-temperature ferromagnetism is observed in proton irradiated 4H-SiC single crystal. An initial increase in proton dose leads to pronounced ferromagnetism, accompanying with obvious increase in vacancy concentration. Further increase in irradiation dose lowers the saturation magnetization with the decrease in total vacancy defects due to the defects recombination. It is found that divacancies are the mainly defects in proton irradiated 4H-SiC and responsible for the observed ferromagnetism
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