Oxygen vacancy-induced room-temperature ferromagnetism in D—D neutron irradiated single-crystal TiO 2 (001) rutile

Autor: Nan-Nan Xu, Jingsheng Chen, Liang-Man Bao, Yun-Bo Wang, Xiao-Dong Pan, Gong-Ping Li
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Chinese Physics B. 23:106101
ISSN: 1674-1056
Popis: Remarkable room temperature ferromagnetism in pure single-crystal rutile TiO2 (001) samples irradiated by D-D neutron has been investigated. By combining X-ray diffraction and positron annihilation lifetime, the contracted lattice has been clearly identified in irradiated TiO2, where Ti4+ ions can be easily reduced to the state of Ti3+. As there were no magnetic impurities that could contaminate the samples during the whole procedure, some Ti3+ ions reside on interstitial or substituted sites accompanied by oxygen vacancies should be responsible for the ferromagnetism.
Databáze: OpenAIRE