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Condensed Matter Physics

University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Doctoral Dissertations

2012

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Theoretical Modeling Of The Formation And Functionality Of Low-Dimensional Materials, Hua Chen May 2012

Theoretical Modeling Of The Formation And Functionality Of Low-Dimensional Materials, Hua Chen

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation presents a series of work under the topic of designing and modeling novel low-dimensional materials and structures with desired and coherent structural, electronic, and magnetic properties, using a variety of theoretical tools, including first-principles density functional theory (DFT) method, numerical Monte Carlo (MC) method, and analytical phenomenological approaches, etc. The contents are divided into three major topics:

(1) Magnetic properties of n-p codoped materials. The noncompensated n-p codoping method is proposed to increase the density of magnetic dopants in diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS) while keeping the magnetic coupling strength, which may lead to a …