La-doped EuO: A rare earth ferromagnetic semiconductor with the highest Curie temperature

H. Miyazaki; H. J. Im; K. Terashima; S. Yagi; M. Kato; K. Soda; T. Ito; S. Kimura

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La-doped EuO: A rare earth ferromagnetic semiconductor with the highest Curie temperature

H. Miyazaki, H. J. Im, K. Terashima, S. Yagi, M. Kato, K. Soda, T. Ito, S. Kimura

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We report the fabrication of single-crystalline La-doped EuO thin films with a Curie temperature (T_C) of about 200 K, the highest among rare-earth compounds without transition metals. From first-principle band calculation and x-ray diffraction measurement, the observed increase in T _C cannot be explained only by the increase in hybridization intensity due to lattice contraction and the increase in up-spin electrons of the Eu 5d state caused by the electron doping. Hybridization between the Eu 4f and donor states and/or Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida interaction mediated by the doped La 5d state is a possible origin of the increase in T_C.

Original language	English
Article number	232503
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	96
Issue number	23
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3416911
Publication status	Published - 2010

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