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A fiber optic magnetic field sensor based on Co doped ZnO nanorods is proposed and demonstrated. The sensor has an operating magnetic field range of 17 mT to 180 mT and shows a maximum sensitivity of ∼18% for 15 at% Co doped ZnO nanorods.

Cobalt doping enhances visible absorption in ZnO nanoparticles as a result of d–d transitions. By co-precipitation method, Zn1−xCoxO nanoparticles had been synthesised and multiband photodetectors were fabricated after characteristic analysis.

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The effect of oxygen vacancies on ferromagnetism (FM) in Zn 1Àx Mn x O thin films grown by radio frequency (RF) sputtering has been investigated. The grown films at different oxygen pressures have been characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Hall effect, photoluminescence (PL) and vibrating sample magnetometry (VSM). The observed ferromagnetism/ diamagnetism by the VSM measurement due to the variation of oxygen vacancies has been confirmed by XRD, PL, and Hall results. The vacancy-mediated FM has been explained by the formation of magnetic polarons.

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