Structure and magnetic characteristics of Si-doped AlN films

Ni adsorption on Al12P12 nano-cage: A DFT study

“…Besides the above mentioned nano-cages, the composite metal-nanocages have potential applicants in different areas such as optical and magnetic devices, and catalysis [28]. For example there are several first-principles theoretical reports on metal interaction with AlN and GaN [28][29][30][31][32][33]. Zhang et al [28] used DFT method to search for the probability of bare-and Ni-adsorbed AlN nano-cages for hydrogen storage.…”

“…al. [29] investigated the effect of Si-doping on AlN films. They showed that Si is a potential nonmagnetic dopant for preparing diluted magnetic semiconductor films.…”

Possible ferromagnetism in Li, Na and K-doped AlN: A first-principle study

“…In order to eliminate these extrinsic magnetic behaviors, many researches have been focused on investigating the effect of nonmagnetic element doping in semiconductors. Recently, there have been reports of high-temperature ferromagnetism in some oxide and nitride semiconductors by doping nonmagnetic elements [10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. At the same time, first-principle calculations showed that appropriate nonmagnetic anion or cation substitutions in several oxide, nitride or sulfide semiconductors can induce intrinsic ferromagnetism .…”

Magnetism modulation in Cu-doped AlN via coupling between AlN thin film and ferroelectric substrate

“…Among the potential host materials for DMS/DMI, AlN based DMS/DMI have been extensively studied since they exhibit room temperature ferromagnetism [5][6][7]. However, some references indicated that the ferromagnetism may come from magnetic precipitates or other clusters [8,9].…”