• 文献标题:   Spin-dependent transport properties of a graphene electrode-single quintuple bond [PhCrCrPh] molecule junction
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WAN HQ, CHEN XW, ZHOU GH
  • 作者关键词:   ab initio calculation, spindependent transport, carbonbased spintronics molecular device
  • 出版物名称:   MOLECULAR PHYSICS
  • ISSN:   0026-8976 EI 1362-3028
  • 通讯作者地址:   Yuzhang Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1080/00268976.2018.1541198
  • 出版年:   2019

▎ 摘  要

We apply a first-principle computational approach to study the spin-dependent electron transport properties of a single-quintuple bond [PhCrCrPh] molecule with the -bent and linear configurations sandwiched between two ferromagnetic zigzag graphene nanoribbon electrodes. Theoretical results suggest that the current through the -bent configuration is significantly larger than the corresponding linear one. The device shows a perfect two-state molecular conformational switch, and a maximum predicted ON/OFF ratio of currents can be up to around 2.4 x 10(4)/7 x 10(4) for majority-spin (alpha)/minority-spin (beta) state. Interestingly, the device shows an obvious spin-polarisation behaviour and negative differential resistance effect. The spin filtering efficiency can reach up to 100, and the maximum value of the peak-to-valley ratio of NDR is up to about 46. These results suggest that our proposed device has attractive potential in molecular switch as well as spin-filtering. [GRAPHICS]