• 文献标题:   Structural, magnetic, and electronic properties of Ni-n and Fe-n nanostructures (n=1-4) adsorbed on zigzag graphene nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   LONGO RC, CARRETE J, FERRER J, GALLEGO LJ
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   1098-0121
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Santiago Compostela
  • 被引频次:   43
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.81.115418
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

Extensive ab initio density-functional calculations were performed to investigate the structural, magnetic, and electronic properties of systems comprising Ni-n and Fe-n nanostructures (n=1-4) adsorbed on hydrogen-passivated zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). Both Ni and Fe atoms were most strongly bound at GNR edge sites and neither altered whether the GNR was metallic or semiconducting. However, Ni-n nanostructures were more strongly bound than Fe-n nanostructures, and their atoms had much smaller spin magnetic moments; Ni-n/GNR systems, like the pristine GNR, always had lowest energy with antiparallel edge spins, whereas among Fe-n/GNR systems this was only found for one- or two-atom adstructures at subedge or near-subedge atop sites; and zigzag Ni-3 and Ni-4 chains placed at GNR hole sites retained close contact with the GNR upon relaxation, whereas the analogous Fe chains adopted geometries similar to those of free-standing Fe clusters, with one or more atoms lifted away from the GNR.