• 文献标题:   p-magnetism and spin-dependent transport in boron pair doped armchair graphene nanoribbons
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHANG PA, LI XL, DONG JT, ZHU M, ZHENG FX, ZHANG J
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  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0003-6951 EI 1077-3118
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  • 被引频次:   7
  • DOI:   10.1063/5.0086377
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

Carbon-based magnetic nanostructures have long spin coherent length and are promising for spintronics applications in data storage and information processing. Recent experiments demonstrate that a pair of substitutional boron atoms (B-2) doped 7-atom-wide armchair graphene nanoribbons (B-2-7AGNRs) have intrinsic magnetism, providing a quasi-1D magnetic material platform for spintronics. In this work, we demonstrate that the magnetism in B-2-7AGNRs is contributed by pi-electrons, originating from the imbalance of electrons in two spin channels in response to boron dopants. The spin-dependent transport across single and double boron pair doped 7AGNRs (B-2-7AGNRs and 2B(2)-7AGNRs) by constructing lateral graphene nanoribbon heterojunctions has been investigated by using first-principles calculations. We show that for B-2-7AGNRs with spin splitting pi-electronic states near the Fermi level, by applying a bias voltage, one can obtain a current spin polarization over 90% and a negative differential resistance effect. For 2B(2)-7AGNRs, two spin centers have been found to be antiferromagnetically coupled. We demonstrate a magnetoresistance effect over 15 000% by setting those two spin centers to be ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic alignments. Based on the above spin-polarized transport properties, we reveal that GNR heterojunctions based on B-2-7AGNRs could be potentially applied in quasi-1D spintronic devices.& nbsp;Published under an exclusive license by AIP Publishing.& nbsp;