Controllable ferromagnetism of iron doped topological insulator

The higher than room temperature ferromagnetism was found in iron doped Bi2Se3. Samples generated by different processes have different magnetic characters. The Curie temperature is independent on iron concentration which against all discovered dilute magnetic systems. EXAFS observations show that the local structure of iron in samples with paramagnetic character is complex. On the contrary, that with ferromagnetic character is very simple that the iron atoms make up small single atom, dimer or trimer structures and these structures randomly distributed in Bi2Se3 crystal. The ferromagnetism can be enhanced or suppressed by the shift of Fermi edge by co-doping of Mg and Fe to Bi2Se3 crystal. The less than 3 atoms small structure cannot have room temperature ferromagnetism, so we believe that the higher than room temperature controllable ferromagnetism is intrinsic character of iron doped topological insulator.