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Significant enhancement of ferromagnetism in ZnCrTe doped with iodine as an n-type dopant
The effect of additional doping of charge impurities was investigated in a
ferromagnetic semiconductor ZnCrTe. It was found that the doping
of iodine, which is expected to act as an n-type dopant in ZnTe, brought about
a drastic enhancement of the ferromagnetism in ZnCrTe while the
grown films remained electrically insulating. In particular, at a fixed Cr
composition of x = 0.05, the ferromagnetic transition temperature Tc increased
up to 300K at maximum due to the iodine doping from Tc = 30K of the undoped
counterpart, while the ferromagnetism disappeared due to the doping of nitrogen
as a p-type dopant. The observed systematic correlation of ferromagnetism with
the doping of charge impurities of both p- and n-type, suggesting a key role of
the position of Fermi level within the impurity d-state, is discussed on the
basis of the double exchange interaction as a mechanism of ferromagnetism in
this material.Comment: 5 figures, to be published in Phys. Rev. Let
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