Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
Angewandte Chemie - International Edition
5 years ago

Single-Domain Ferromagnet of Noncentrosymmetric Uniaxial Magnetic Ions and Magnetoelectric Interaction

Single-Domain Ferromagnet of Noncentrosymmetric Uniaxial Magnetic Ions and Magnetoelectric Interaction
Hyun-Joo Koo, Myung-Hwan Whangbo, Elijah E. Gordon
The feasibility of a single-domain ferromagnet based on uniaxial magnetic ions was examined. For a noncentrosymmetric uniaxial magnetic ion of magnetic moment μ at a site of local electric dipole moment p, it is unknown to date whether μ prefers to be parallel or antiparallel to μ. The nature of this magnetoelectric interaction was probed in terms of analogical reasoning based on the Rashba effect and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. We show that μ and p prefer an antiparallel arrangement, predict that Fe-doped CaZnOS is a single-domain ferromagnet like a bar magnet, and find the probable cause for the ferromagnetism and weak magnetization hysteresis in Fe-doped hexagonal ZnO and ZnS at very low dopant concentrations. The feasibility of a single-domain ferromagnet of uniaxial magnetic ions is explored, as is the nature of the magnetoelectric interaction for a noncentrosymmetric uniaxial magnetic ion, and the cause for ferromagnetism and weak magnetization hysteresis in Fe-doped hexagonal ZnO and ZnS.

Publisher URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/resolve/doi

DOI: 10.1002/anie.201701699

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