Ferromagnetic behaviour of ZnO: the role of grain boundaries

• Boris B. Straumal,
• Svetlana G. Protasova,
• Andrei A. Mazilkin,
• Eberhard Goering,
• Gisela Schütz,
• Petr B. Straumal and
• Brigitte Baretzky

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 1936–1947, doi:10.3762/bjnano.7.185

• multilayer grain boundary segregation. Keywords: ferromagnetism; grain boundaries; zinc(II) oxide (ZnO); Review Introduction In 2000 the seminal work of Tomasz Dietl et al. appeared [1]. In this work it was predicted theoretically that many semiconductor oxides can become ferromagnetic (FM) if one dopes