• 文献标题:   Magnetism and perfect spin filtering effect in graphene nanoflakes
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   SHENG W, NING ZY, YANG ZQ, GUO H
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  • 出版物名称:   NANOTECHNOLOGY
  • ISSN:   0957-4484 EI 1361-6528
  • 通讯作者地址:   Fudan Univ
  • 被引频次:   56
  • DOI:   10.1088/0957-4484/21/38/385201
  • 出版年:   2010

▎ 摘  要

Magnetic and spin-polarized transport properties in zigzag-edged graphene nanoflakes were investigated from first-principles calculations. Ferrimagnetic structure was found to be the ground state for triangular shaped graphene flakes. Magnetism is weakened by doping B or N atoms into the flakes, and it is enhanced if F atoms are doped in certain sublattices of the flakes. The magnetic properties can be rationalized by the behaviors of dopants as well as interactions between dopants and the host atoms. A perfect (100%) spin filtering effect was achieved for the pure or B doped graphene flake sandwiched between two gold electrodes. The orientation of the spin current is found to be flipped if the flake is doped with N, O, or F atoms. The orientation-tunable spin filtering effect is potentially useful in practical applications.