We give evidence for intrinsic, defect-induced bulk paramagnetism in SiC by means of 13C and 29Si nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. The temperature dependence of the internal dipole-field distribution, probed by the spin part of the NMR Knight shift and the spectral linewidth, follows a Curie law and scales very well with the macroscopic DC susceptibility. In order to quantitatively analyze the NMR spectra, a microscopic model based on dipole-dipole interactions was developed. The very good agreement between these simulations and the NMR data establishes a direct relation between the frequency distribution of the spectral intensity and the corresponding real-space volumes of nuclear spins. The presented approach by NMR can be applied to a variety of similar materials and, thus, opens a new avenue for the microscopic exploration and exploitation of diluted bulk magnetism in semiconductors.
@article{arxiv.1611.08186,
title = {Defect-induced magnetism in SiC probed by nuclear magnetic resonance},
author = {Z. T. Zhang and D. Dmytriieva and S. Molatta and J. Wosnitza and Yutian Wang and M. Helm and Shengqiang Zhou and H. Kühne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1611.08186},
year = {2017}
}