Abstract
In this paper, we have investigated the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of magnesium selenium (MgSe) doped with transition metal manganese (Mn) impurity in the cubic diluted magnetic semiconductor (DMS) zinc blende structure. The compounds which we are interested are as Mg1−x Mn x Se where x change between 0 and 1 by step 0.25. All properties are studied, using first-principles calculation of density functional theory under the framework of the full-potential linearized augmented plane waver (FP-LAPW). In our study, we employed the Wu-Cohen generalized approximation (WC-GGA) to optimize the crystal structure, whereas Tran-Blaha modified Becke-Johnson potential (TB-mBJ) as a new functional was applied to compute the electronic and magnetic properties in order to get some better degree of precision. The electronic band structures and density of state plots reveal ferromagnetic semiconducting behavior in these compounds, and the exchange constants N 0 α and N 0 β are calculated to validate the effects resulting from exchange splitting process. Moreover, for each concentration x, the value of total magnetic moment has been estimated to equal to 5 μ B. The important magnetic moments values obtained in these compounds indicate the potential for their use in spintronic devices.
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