• 文献标题:   Proposal for All-Electrical Spin Manipulation and Detection for a Single Molecule on Boron-Substituted Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GAO F, LI DZ, BARRETEAU C, BRANDBYGE M
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
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  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.027201
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

All-electrical writing and reading of spin states attract considerable attention for their promising applications in energy-efficient spintronics devices. Here we show, based on rigorous first-principles calculations, that the spin properties can be manipulated and detected in molecular spinterfaces, where an iron tetraphenyl porphyrin (FeTPP) molecule is deposited on boron-substituted graphene (BG). Notably, a reversible spin switching between the S = 1 and S = 3/2 states is achieved by a gate electrode. We can trace the origin to a strong hybridization between the Fe-dz2 and B-pz orbitals. Combining density functional theory with nonequilibrium Green???s function formalism, we propose an experimentally feasible three-terminal setup to probe the spin state. Furthermore, we show how the in-plane quantum transport for the BG, which is non???spin polarized, can be modified by FeTPP, yielding a significant transport spin polarization near the Fermi energy (> 10% for typical coverage). Our work paves the way to realize allelectrical spintronics devices using molecular spinterfaces.