Straight and zigzagged Ga1-
x
Mn
x
N (0 ≤ x ≤ 0.05) nanowires were selectively synthesized by the vapor
transport method, using different growth temperature. They consisted of single-crystalline wurtzite GaN
nanocrystals grown along the [101̄0] and [0001] directions for the straight and zigzagged morphologies,
respectively. The lattice constant, c, decreases initially with increasing amount of Mn doping (x), and then
increases as x increases above 0.03. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy revealed that as the Mn content increases
to x = 0.02, the binding energy of Ga 2p shifts to a higher energy, suggesting the possibility of hybridization
between the Mn2+ ions and host defects. X-ray absorption spectroscopy and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
confirmed that the Mn2+ ions substitute into the tetrahedrally coordinated sites. The magnetization measurement
revealed that all of these nanowires exhibited room-temperature ferromagnetic behaviors, most significantly
for the straight nanowires grown with the [101̄0] direction, having x = 0.02−0.03.