• 文献标题:   Multiple thermal spin transport performances of graphene nanoribbon heterojuction co-doped with Nitrogen and Boron
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HUANG H, GAO GY, FU HH, ZHENG AM, ZOU F, DING GQ, YAO KL
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  • 出版物名称:   SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
  • ISSN:   2045-2322
  • 通讯作者地址:   Huazhong Univ Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1038/s41598-017-04287-3
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Graphene nanoribbon is a popular material in spintronics owing to its unique electronic properties. Here, we propose a novel spin caloritronics device based on zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR), which is a heterojunction consisting of a pure single-hydrogen-terminated ZGNR and one doped with nitrogen and boron. Using the density functional theory combined with the non-equilibrium Green's function, we investigate the thermal spin transport properties of the heterojunction under different magnetic configurations only by a temperature gradient without an external gate or bias voltage. Our results indicate that thermally-induced spin polarized currents can be tuned by switching the magnetic configurations, resulting in a perfect thermal colossal magnetoresistance effect. The heterojunctions with different magnetic configurations exhibit a variety of excellent transport characteristics, including the spin-Seebeck effect, the spin-filtering effect, the temperature switching effect, the negative differential thermal resistance effect and the spin-Seebeck diode feature, which makes the heterojunction a promising candidate for high-efficiently multifunctional spin caloritronic applications.