Improving the magnetic moment of Ca<sub>2</sub>Ge and promoting the conversion of semiconductors to diluted magnetic semiconductors using Mn-doping-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Improving the magnetic moment of Ca₂Ge and promoting the conversion of semiconductors to diluted magnetic semiconductors using Mn-doping

Published:2024 Issue:10 Volume:14 Page:6930-6937
ISSN:2046-2069
Container-title:RSC Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:RSC Adv.

Author:

Cen Weifu¹²^ORCID,Tian Zean¹³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. College of Big Data and Information Engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, China

2. School of Material Science and Engineering, Guizhou Minzu University, Guiyang, 550025, China

3. College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, 410082, China

Abstract

Ca2Ge is converted into a dilute magnetic semiconductor by Mn-doping, where the degenerate energy levels of t2g and eg split into five orbitals. The electric orbitals are spun and exhibits ferrimagnetism with a magnetic moment of 5 μB.

Funder

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Department

Guizhou Minzu University

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/RA/D3RA07294K

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