• 文献标题:   Spin-dependent electronic conduction along zigzag graphene nanoribbons bearing adsorbed Ni and Fe nanostructures
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GARCIAFUENTE A, GALLEGO LJ, VEGA A
  • 作者关键词:   density functional theory dft, electronic transport, spin filtering
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICSCONDENSED MATTER
  • ISSN:   0953-8984 EI 1361-648X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Valladolid
  • 被引频次:   3
  • DOI:   10.1088/0953-8984/26/16/165302
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

Using SMEAGOL, an ab initio computational method that combines the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism with density-functional theory, we calculated spin-specific electronic conduction in systems consisting of single Fen and Ni-n nanostructures (n = 1-4) adsorbed on a hydrogen-passivated zigzag graphene nanoribbon. For each cluster we considered both ferromagnetically and antiferromagnetically coupled ribbon edges (Ferro-F and Ferro-A systems, respectively). Adstructures located laterally on Ferro-A ribbons caused significant transmittance loss at energies 0.6-0.25 eV below the Fermi level for one spin and 0.2-0.4 eV above the Fermi level for the other, allowing the potential use of these systems in transistors to create a moderately spin-polarized current of one or the other sign depending on the gate voltage. Ni-3 and Ni-4 clusters located at the centre of Ferro-F ribbons exhibited a strong spin-filtering effect in a narrow energy window around the Fermi level.