KEYWORDS: Aluminum nitride, Chemical species, Magnetic semiconductors, Magnetism, Electrons, Semiconductors, Aluminum, Fermium, Frequency modulation, Ferromagnetics
Using a variety of experimental, alumina nitride (AlN) based diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMSs) are found to
exhibit ferromagnetic properties at room temperature by many groups. The origin of ferromagnetism in DMSs is
ambiguous and difficult to be clearly identified. The geometrical structure of V doped 32-atom supercell of AlN was
optimized by using the ultra-soft pseudopotential method of total-energy plane wave based on the density functional
theory (DFT) . Density of states and band structure were calculated and discussed in detail. The results revealed that the
V dopants were found spin-polarized. Band structures show a half metallic behaviour. The ferromagnetic ground state in
V-doped AlN can be explained in terms of p-d hybridization mechanism. These results suggest that V-doped AlN may
present a promising dilute magnetic semiconductor.
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