• 文献标题:   Magnetic properties of sulfur-doped graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZHU J, PARK H, PODILA R, WADEHRA A, AYALA P, OLIVEIRA L, HE J, ZAKHIDOV AA, HOWARD A, WILKINS J, RAO AM
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, doping, ferromagnetic ordering, defect, density functional theory, xray photoelectron spectroscopy, magnetization
  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF MAGNETISM MAGNETIC MATERIALS
  • ISSN:   0304-8853 EI 1873-4766
  • 通讯作者地址:   Clemson Univ
  • 被引频次:   10
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.jmmm.2015.10.012
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

While studying magnetism of d- and f-electron systems has been consistently an active research area in physics, chemistry, and biology, there is an increasing interest in the novel magnetism of p-electron systems, especially in graphene and graphene-derived nanostructures. Bulk graphite is diamagnetic in nature, however, graphene is known to exhibit either a paramagnetic response or weak ferromagnetic ordering. Although many groups have attributed this magnetism in graphene to defects or unintentional magnetic impurities, there is a lack of compelling evidence to pinpoint its origin. To resolve this issue, we systematically studied the influence of entropically necessary intrinsic defects (e.g., vacancies, edges) and extrinsic dopants (e.g., S-dopants) on the magnetic properties of graphene. We found that the saturation magnetization of graphene decreased upon sulfur doping suggesting that S-dopants demagnetize vacancies and edges. Our density functional theory calculations provide evidence for: (i) intrinsic defect demagnetization by the formation of covalent bonds between S-dopant and edges/vacancies concurring with the experimental results, and (ii) a net magnetization from only zig-zag edges, suggesting that the possible contradictory results on graphene magnetism in the literature could stem from different defect-types. Interestingly, we observed peculiar local maxima in the temperature dependent magnetizations that suggest the coexistence of different magnetic phases within the same graphene samples. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.