• 文献标题:   Spin-filter effect by introducing an edge vacancy on armchair graphene nanoribbons with oxygen termination
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   YABUSAKI K, SASAOKA K, NODA K, AWANO Y
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  • 出版物名称:   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0021-4922 EI 1347-4065
  • 通讯作者地址:   Keio Univ
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.7567/1347-4065/ab03dc
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

We studied the spin transport properties of an oxygen-terminated armchair graphene nanoribbon (O-AGNR) with a single edge vacancy via an abinitio calculation based on density functional theory combined with the nonequilibrium Green's function technique. We found that spin-filtering occurs regardless of the ribbon width by introducing an edge vacancy on one edge side of the O-AGNR because the four energy bands mainly consisted of the oxygen p orbital, such that the up-spin states were localized on one edge side and the down-spin states were on the other edge side. Moreover, we showed that the absolute value of spin-filtering efficiency reached similar to 1.00 at certain values of the chemical potential; additionally, the direction of spin polarization can be switched by controlling the chemical potential. These results suggest that O-AGNRs have potential applications in spintronics devices. (C) 2019 The Japan Society of Applied Physics