Module 2 : Systems under technological importance

Lecture 12 : Inorganic semiconductors -Magnetic materials - 2

 

Magnetic semiconductors

Concentrated magnetic semiconductors:

  • Ferromagnetic CrBr3 (Tc = 37 K)
    Tsubokawa, J. Phys. Soc. Jpn. 15, 1664 (1960)
    structure: bayerite (rare and complicated)
  • Stoichiometric Eu chalcogenides (1963)
    EuO: ferromagnet (Tc= 77 K)
    EuS: ferromagnet (Tc = 16.5 K)
    EuSe: antiferro-/ferrimagnet
    EuTe: antiferromagnet
structure: NaCl
good realizations of Heisenberg models with
J1 (nearest neighbor) and J2 (NNN) relevant Mechanism: kinetic and Coulomb

 

 

 

Mechanism: kinetic and Coulomb

                                Kasuya (1970)