ZnO- and TiO2-Based Semiconductor Films Prepared by Plasma Enhanced CVD Without any Carrier Gas

Abstract

Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), one of the most widely used techniques in modern microelectronics, is firstly employed to prepare ferromagnetic ZnO-based and TiO2-based magnetic semiconductors at low deposition temperature without any carrier gas. ZnO-based films show excellent photoluminescence at room temperature. All doped oxide films show room-temperature ferromagnetic behaviors by using superconducting quantum interference device measurements. Magnetic ions incorporating into host lattice and the exclusion of secondary phase in films are confirmed by microstructure analysis and magnetic results, such as XRD, XPS, PL and FC/ZFC. In order to gain insights into the effect of oxygen vacancies or nitrogen implantation on ferromagnetism of oxide-based semiconductors, all films were annealed in N2 ambience at 900 or treated in NH3 or O2 plasma at 350 . The results indicated the crucial role of hole-carriers or oxygenvacancies playing in the ferromagnetic coupling between magnetic ions in oxide-based semiconductors.