• 文献标题:   The magnetoresistance effect and spin-polarized photocurrent of zigzag graphene-graphyne nanoribbon heterojunctions
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LI Y, MA ZY, SONG XJ, YANG Z, XU LC, LIU RP, LI XY, LIU XG, HU DY
  • 作者关键词:   magnetoresistance, photocurrent, graphenegraphyne heterojunction
  • 出版物名称:   COMPUTATIONAL MATERIALS SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0927-0256 EI 1879-0801
  • 通讯作者地址:   Taiyuan Univ Technol
  • 被引频次:   11
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.commatsci.2017.04.021
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Using density functional theory and non-equilibrium Green's function method, we designed several zigzag graphene-graphyne nanoribbon heterojunction devices and investigated their spin-dependent transport and optoelectronic properties. Our results show that the heterojunctions have outstanding giant magnetoresistance (GMR) effect. The GMR value is as high as 10(6)%. According to the symmetry and connection way, for the ferromagnetic states the heterojunctions may produce two spin currents and exhibit significant rectification behaviors. Furthermore, spin-polarized photocurrents can be generated by irradiating the devices with infrared, visible or ultraviolet light. More importantly, in these heterojunctions we found that the behavior of the spin-up (spin-down) photocurrent for the ferromagnetic state is similar to that of the spin-down (spin-up) photocurrent for the antiferromagnetic state. This novel effect provides an efficient way to control the spin transport in the systems. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.