Module 2 : Systems under technological importance

Lecture 12 : Inorganic semiconductors -Magnetic materials - 2

 

oxygen vacancy: double donor (missing O fails to bind two electrons)
Gd3+ substituted for Eu2+: single donor

The systems are not diluted: every cation is magnetic

Electrons increase Tc to ~150 K (Shafer and McGuire, 1968)
Mechanism: carrier-mediated, see Lecture 3

Electrons lead to metal-insulator transition close toTc: