Formation of anisotropic ferromagnetic response in rutile (TiO2) implanted with cobalt ions

• The (1 0 0)- and (0 0 1)-monocrystalline plates of rutile (TiO2) were implanted by 40 keV Co+ ions with fluences in wide range of 0.15–1.5 × 1017 ion/cm2 to study the development of ferromagnetism in the diamagnetic TiO2. With increase of fluence the implanted rutile plates reveal sequentially paramagnetic, superparamagnetic, weak ferromagnetic and, eventually, strong anisotropic ferromagnetic response at room temperature. The thermo-magnetic analysis shows that the ferromagnetic samples exhibit two magnetic transitions with temperatures of the ferromagnetic ordering TC1 not, vert, similar 700 K and TC2 not, vert, similar 850 K, correspondingly. Heating of the samples in air strongly suppresses the ferromagnetic phases if the temperature of heating exceeds the corresponding transition temperature. Subsequent high-vacuum annealing restores only the low-temperature ferromagnetic phase. The origin of the two magnetic phases and anisotropy of the ferromagnetism in the Co-implanted rutile are discussed in the model of two cobalt-rich layers with different concentration and valence states of the implanted cobalt.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Den kondenserade materiens fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Condensed Matter Physics (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Fysik -- Subatomär fysik (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Physical Sciences -- Subatomic Physics (hsv//eng)

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Magnetic semiconductors; Ion implantation; Spintronics

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