Effects of Doping on the Magnetic Properties and Frustration of Hexagonal YMn0.9A0.1O3（A=Al,Fe,and Cu）

The doping effects on the frustration and the magnetic properties in hexagonal compounds ot YMn0.9A0.1O3 （A=A1, Fe and Cu） are investigated. Experimental results indicate that both the non-magnetic and magnetic ion dopants lead to the increase of magnetic moments and the decrease of the absolute value of Curie-Weiss temperature （｜θcw｜）- Compared with pure YMnOa, the geometrical frustration of YMn0.9 A0. 1O3 is greatly suppressed and the magnetic coupling in that exhibits dopant-dependent. In addition, for the doped YMno.gAo.103, the antiferromagnetic transition temperature （TN） is also suppressed slightly, which shows an abnormal dilution effect and it may be ascribed to the reduction of frustration due to the chemical substitution.

Effects of(La,Sr) co-doping on electrical conduction and magnetic properties of BiFeO_3 nanoparticles

Multiferroic material as a photovoltaic material has gained considerable attention in recent years.Nanoparticles（NPs）La_（0.1）Bi_（0.9-x）Sr_xFeO_y（LBSF,x = 0,0.2,0.4） with dopant Sr^（2＋）ions were synthesized by the sol–gel method.A systematic change in the crystal structure from rhombohedral to tetragonal upon increasing Sr doping was observed.There is an obvious change in the particle size from 180 nm to 50 nm with increasing Sr substitution into LBFO.It was found that Sr doping effectively narrows the band gap from～2.08 e V to～1.94 e V,while it leads to an apparent enhancement in the electrical conductivity of LBSF NPs,making a transition from insulator to semiconductor.This suggests an effective way to modulate the conductivity of BiFeO_（3-）based multiferroic materials with pure phase by co-doping with La and Sr at the A sites of BiFeO_3.

Enhanced spin–orbit torque efficiency in Pt100−xNix alloy based magnetic bilayer

The binary alloy/ferromagnetic metal heterostructure has drawn extensive attention in the research field of spin–orbittorque(SOT)due to the potential enhancement of SOT efficiency via composition engineering.In this work,the magneticproperties and SOT efficiency in the Pt100−xNix/Ni78Fe22 bilayers were investigated via the spin-torque ferromagneticresonance(ST-FMR)technique.The effective magnetic anisotropy field and effective damping constant extracted by analyzing the ST-FMR spectra show a weak dependence on the Ni concentration.The effective spin-mixing conductanceof 8.40×10^(14)Ω−1·m−2and the interfacial spin transparency Tin of 0.59 were obtained for the sample of Pt70Ni30/NiFebilayer.More interestingly,the SOT efficiency that is carefully extracted from the angular dependence of ST-FMR spectrashows a nonmonotonic dependence on the Ni concentration,which reaches the maximum at x=18.The enhancement ofthe SOT efficiency by alloying the Ni with Pt shows potential in lowering the critical switching current.Moreover,alloyingrelatively cheaper Ni with Pt may promote to reduce the cost of SOT devices.

Growth of Fe-Doped and V-Doped MoS2 and Their Magnetic-Electrical Effects

Magnetism in two-dimensional(2D)materials has attracted much attention recently.However,intrinsic magnetic 2D materials are rare and mostly unstable in ambient.Although heteroatom doping can introduce magnetism,the basic property especially the electrical-magnetic coupling property has been rarely revealed.Herein,both iron(Fe)-doped and vanadium(V)-doped MoSfilms were grown by chemical vapor deposition.Through studying the structure and electrical property of Fe-doped and V-doped MoS,it was found that both Fe and V doping would decrease the electron concentration,exhibiting a p-type doping effect.Significantly,V-doped MoSdisplays a p-type conduction behavior.Although the carrier mobility decreases after heteroatom doping,both Fe and V doping could endow MoSwith magnetism,in which the transfer curves of both MoStransistors exhibit a strong magneticdependent behavior.It is found that the magnetic response of Fe-doped MoScan be tuned from~0.2 nA/T to~1.3 nA/T,with the tunability much larger than that of V-doped MoS.At last,the magnetic mechanism is discussed with the local magnetic property performed by magnetic force microscopy.The typical morphology-independent magnetic signal demonstrates the formed magnetic domain structure in Fe-doped MoS.This study opens new potential to design novel magnetic-electrical devices.

Electronic and magnetic structures of V-doped zinc blende Zn_(1-x)V_xN_yO_(1-y) and Zn_(1-x)V_xP_yO_(1-y)

Electronic and magnetic structures of zinc blende ZnO doped with V impurities are studied by first-principles calculations based on the Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker （KKR） method combined with the coherent potential approximation （CPA）. Calculations for the substitution of O by N or P are performed and the magnetic moment is found to be sensitive to the N or P content. Furthermore, the system exhibits a half-metallic band structure accompanied by the broadening of vanadium bands. The mechanism responsible for ferromagnetism is also discussed and the stability of the ferromagnetic state compared with that of the paramagnetic state is systematically investigated by calculating the total energy difference between them by using supercell method.

Improved electromagnetic dissipation of Fe doping LaCoO_(3)toward broadband microwave absorption

Perovskite LaCoO_(3)is of great potential in electromagnetic wave absorption considering its outstanding dielectric loss as well as the existing magnetic response with the magnetic doping.However,the dissipation mechanism of the magnetic doping on the microwave absorption is lack of sufficient investigated.In this paper,LaCo_(1-x)Fe_(x)O_(3)(x=0,0.05,0.1,0.15,0.2,0.25,0.3,LCFOs)perovskites with different Fe doping amounts were prepared successfully by the sol-gel method and subsequent heat treatment in the air atmosphere.The structure characterization carried out by the frst-principles calculations shows the effect of Fe doping on the dielectric and magnetic properties of LCFOs and the strong hybridization of Co/Fe-3d with O-2p in the LCFOs system was successfully demonstrated.Particularly,when x=0.1 and the thickness is only 1.95 mm,the LaCo_(0.9)Fe_(0.1)O_(3)exhibits the best microwave absorption performance with the minimum reflection loss(RL)value of about-41 dB.The typical samples achieve a broad effective absorption bandwidth(EAB)of 5.16 GHz(7.92-13.08 GHz),which covers the total X band(8-12 GHz).Considering that,the especial Fe doping perovskite is promising to be a candidate as efficient microwave absorbers.

Effect of Ar ion irradiation on the room temperature ferromagnetism of undoped and Cu-doped rutile TiO_2 single crystals

Remarkable room-temperature ferromagnetism was observed both in undoped and Cu-doped rutile TiO2 single crystals（SCs）.To tune their magnetism,Ar ion irradiation was quantitatively performed on the two crystals in which the saturation magnetizations for the samples were enhanced distinctively.The post-irradiation led to a spongelike layer in the near surface of the Cu-doped TiO2.Meanwhile,a new CuO-like species present in the sample was found to be dissolved after the post-irradiation.Analyzing the magnetization data unambiguously reveals that the experimentally observed ferromagnetism is related to the intrinsic defects rather than the exotic Cu ions,while these ions are directly involved in boosting the absorption in the visible region.

Defect energetics and magnetic properties of 3d-transition-metal-doped topological crystalline insulator SnTe

The introduction of magnetism in SnTe-class topological crystalline insulators is a challenging subject with great importance in the quantum device applications. Based on the first-principles calculations, we have studied the defect energetics and magnetic properties of 3d transition-metal(TM)-doped SnTe. We find that the doped TM atoms prefer to stay in the neutral states and have comparatively high formation energies, suggesting that the uniform TMdoping in SnTe with a higher concentration will be difficult unless clustering. In the dilute doping regime, all the magnetic TMatoms are in the high-spin states, indicating that the spin splitting energy of 3d TM is stronger than the crystal splitting energy of the SnTe ligand. Importantly, Mn-doped SnTe has relatively low defect formation energy, largest local magnetic moment, and no defect levels in the bulk gap, suggesting that Mn is a promising magnetic dopant to realize the magnetic order for the theoretically-proposed large-Chern-number quantum anomalous Hall effect(QAHE) in SnTe.

Interlayer ferromagnetic coupling in nonmagnetic elements doped Crl3 thin films

The exploration of magnetism in two-dimensional layered materials has attracted extensive research interest.For the monoclinic phase Crls with interlayer antiferromagnetism,finding a static and robust way of realizing the intrinsic interlayer ferromagnetic coupling is desirable.In this work,we study the electronic structure and magnetic properties of the nonmag-netic element(e.g.,O,S,Se,N,P,As,and C)doped bi-and triple-layer Crl3 systems via first-principles calculations.Our results demonstrate that O,P,S,As,and Se doped Crls bilayer can realize interlayer ferromagnetism.Further analysis shows that the interlayer ferromagnetic coupling in the doped few-layer Crls is closely related to the formation of localized spin-polarized state around the doped elements.Further study presents that,for As-doped tri-layer Crl3,it can realize interlayer ferromagnetic coupling.This work proves that nonmagnetic element doping can realize the interlayer ferromagnetically-coupled few-layer Crl3 while maintaining its semiconducting characteristics without introducing additional carriers.

When thermoelectric materials come across with magnetism

Nowadays,thermoelectric materials have attracted a lot of attention as they can directly convert heat into electricity and vice versa.However,while strenuous efforts have been made,those conventional strategies are still inevitably going to meet their performance optimization limits.For this reason,brand new strategies are badly needed to achieve further enhancement.Here,the roles played by magnetism in recent advances of thermoelectric optimization are concluded.Firstly,magnetic thermoelectric materials can just be treated like other normal materials because the use of universal optimization strategies can still get good results.So,it is not a situation which is all or nothing and the tactics of using magnetism for thermoelectric optimization can coexist with other strategies.Besides,through magnetic doping,we can introduce and adjust magnetism in materials for further optimization.Magnetism provides more possibilities in thermoelectric optimization as it can directly influence the spin states in materials.Furthermore,in the form of magnetic secondphase nanoclusters,magnetism can be introduced to thermoelectric materials to conquer the dilemma that the solid solubility of many magnetic ions in thermoelectric materials is too low to have any significant effect on thermoelectric properties.Finally,when exposed to an external magnetic field,topological materials can rely on its unique band structures to optimize.

Light-matter interactions in high quality manganesedoped two-dimensional molybdenum diselenide

Introducing magnetic dopants into twodimensional transition metal dichalcogenides has recently attracted considerable attention due to its promising applications in spintronics and valleytronics.Herein we realized manganese-doped molybdenum diselenide(MoSe_(2))single crystal via chemical vapor transport(CVT)reaction,containing up to 2.9%(atomic concentration)Mn dopants,and investigated the light-matter interaction in these samples.We observed a suppressed trion intensity,a longer photoluminescence lifetime,and prominent blue-and red-shift of E_(2g)^(2)(in-plane)and A_(1g)(out-of-plane)Raman modes,respectively.Moreover,the Mn dopants increase the valley Zeeman splitting of the MoSe_(2) monolayer by~50%,while preserving the linear dependence on magnetic field.First-principles calculations indicate that the spin-polarized deep level defect states are formed due to the Mn substitutional dopants in the Mo Se_(2) lattice.The resulting defect potential favors the funnelling of excitons towards the defects.The Mn dopants reduce the magnitude of the interatomic force constants,explaining the red-shift of the A_(1g)mode.The Mn atoms and their immediate Mo and Se neighbors carry significant magnetic moments,which enhance the observed exciton g-factors due to the exchange interactions affecting defect-bound excitons.