As a wide bang gap material, with large exciton binding energy, ZnO has been paid attention as a material for realizing transparent DMS's. When Mn is incorporated in ZnO, a large controversy is found between magnetic properties: room temperature ferromagnetism [1] or at low temperature[2], even attributed to extrinsic phase[3].We report the correlation between structural, magnetic, optical and electrical properties of a series of thin films of Zn_1-xMn_xO. layers have been grown by MOCVD technique. Mn content varies x=0.00 -0.44 range. Veggard's law behavior for cation-cation distance has been found, justifying the achievement of Zn1-xMnxO. EPR measurements prove the substitution incorporation of Mn²⁺ in zinc site. SQUID and EPR measurements reveal an antiferromagnetic coupling for ZnMnO layers with an effective exchange constant of J1/kB = -15 K [4]. Raman spectroscopy results show Mn²⁺ related band and alloy effect well pronounced for ZnO matrix related phonon lines.

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