• 文献标题:   Magnetism of a relaxed single atom vacancy in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   WU YY, HU YH, XUE L, SUN TY, WANG Y
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, magnetism, vacancy, spin polarization, boundary condition, density functional calculation
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICA BCONDENSED MATTER
  • ISSN:   0921-4526 EI 1873-2135
  • 通讯作者地址:   Hubei Univ Sci Technol
  • 被引频次:   1
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.physb.2018.01.040
  • 出版年:   2018

▎ 摘  要

It has been suggested in literature that defects in graphene (e.g. absorbed atoms and vacancies) may induce magnetizations due to unpaired electrons. The nature of magnetism, i.e. ferromagnetic or anti-ferromagnetic, is dependent on a number of structural factors including locations of magnetic moments and lattice symmetry. In the present work we investigated the influence of a relaxed single atom vacancy in garphnene on magnetization which were obtained under different pinning boundary conditions, aiming to achieve a better understanding of the magnetic behaviors of graphene. Through first principles calculations, we found that major spin polarizations occur on atoms that deviate slightly from their original lattice positions, and pinning boundaries could also affect the relaxed positions of atoms and determine which atom(s) would become the main source(s) of total spin polarizations and magnetic moments. When the pinning boundary condition is free, a special non-magnetic and semi-conductive structure may be obtained, suggesting that magnetization should more readily occur under pinning boundary conditions.