Issue 12, 2020

A high performance N-doped graphene nanoribbon based spintronic device applicable with a wide range of adatoms

Abstract

Designing and fabricating nanosize spintronic devices is a crucial task to develop information technology of the future. However, most of the introduced spin filters suffer from several limitations including difficulty in manipulating the spin current, incapability in utilizing a wide range of dopants to provide magnetism, or obstacles in their experimental realization. Here, by employing first principles calculations, we introduce a structurally simple and functionally efficient spin filter device composed of a zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) with an embedded nitrogenated divacancy. We show that the proposed system, possessing a robust ferromagnetic (FM) ordering, exhibits perfect half metallic behavior in the absence of frequently used transition metals (TMs). Our calculations also show that the suggested system is compatible with a wide range of adatoms including basic metals, metalloids, and TMs. It means that besides d electron magnetism originating from TMs, p electrons of incorporated elements of the main group can also cause half metallicity in the electronic structure of the introduced system. Our system exploiting the robustness of doping-induced FM ordering would be beneficial for promising multifunctional spin filter devices.

Graphical abstract: A high performance N-doped graphene nanoribbon based spintronic device applicable with a wide range of adatoms

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
05 Aug 2020
Accepted
09 Nov 2020
First published
09 Nov 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale Adv., 2020,2, 5905-5911

A high performance N-doped graphene nanoribbon based spintronic device applicable with a wide range of adatoms

M. R. Rezapour, G. Lee and K. S. Kim, Nanoscale Adv., 2020, 2, 5905 DOI: 10.1039/D0NA00652A

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