Structural and magnetic studies of Cu-doped ZnO films synthesized via a hydrothermal route

Tong Li; Haiming Fan; Jiabao Yi; Tun Seng Herng; Yuwei Ma; Xuelian Huang; Junmin Xue; Jun Ding

doi:10.1039/c0jm01100b

Structural and magnetic studies of Cu-doped ZnO films synthesized via a hydrothermal route

Tong Li^*, Haiming Fan, Jiabao Yi, Tun Seng Herng, Yuwei Ma, Xuelian Huang, Junmin Xue, Jun Ding

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Highly-textured n-type ZnO:Cu films with room-temperature ferromagnetism have been hydrothermally grown in aqueous solution at 90 °C using PLD-derived ZnO seed layers on different substrates (quartz, silicon, glass and sapphire). The crystallinity of the ZnO seed layers on different substrates plays an important role in the microstructure of the subsequently grown ZnO:Cu films. Better crystallinity and texture of the seed layers is favourable to the growth of continuous films. Thick Zn_0.98Cu_0.02O films (ca. 1.2 μm) exhibit high value of magnetic moment (0.40 μ_B per Cu), comparable to the previously reported value of thin films, indicating that thick ZnO:Cu films with high magnetization can be synthesized via this hydrothermal route. The incorporation of hydrogen into the ZnO lattice plays a dominant role in ferromagnetism in this ZnO:Cu system.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5756-5762
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Materials Chemistry
Volume	20
Issue number	27
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c0jm01100b
State	Published - 21 Jul 2010
Externally published	Yes

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