Estudo da magnetização e de comutação resistiva em amostras de ZnO

Abstract

We present a study of the magnetic and structural properties of Zn1-xMxO powders (where x = 0 or 0.01 and M = Mn, Fe or Co) produced by proteic sol-gel process. Furthermore, devices based on 10% Co-doped ZnO thin films were built in order to investigate the resistive switching effect. The crystalline structure of the samples was analyzed by XRD and the magnetic measurements were carried out in a SQUID magnetometer. The thin films were deposited by a sputtering system, scanning electronic microscopy was used to analyze the deposition quality and a Keithley 2425 SourceMeter was used to accomplish the electrical measurements. All samples had a hexagonal wurtzite crystalline structure with P63mc space group, and no secondary phase was observed. The magnetic measurements at 2 K show a superparamagnetic behavior in the Co- and Mn-doped ZnO powders while the Fe-doped sample was ferromagnetic. At room temperature the Mn- and Fe-doped ZnO samples were paramagnetic while the doping with Co showed a superparamagnetic behavior. The resistive switching tests showed a purely bipolar behavior in the devices since an increasing in the compliance current didn´t induce a transition to unipolar behavior. Furthermore, a mechanism to explain the arising of the bipolar and unipolar behaviors was proposed.