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Zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) is important for novel carbon-based spintronic applications. Currently, most of ZGNR spintronic studies focus on the collinear magnetism where the up-spin and down-spin are separated clearly. But in some cases, e.g. doping and adsorption, the magnetization profile can be modulated and thus noncollinear magnetism can occur. In order to shed light on possible noncollinear magnetism in ZGNR, we study non-collinear magnetism and electronic transport of boron or nitrogen-doped zigzag graphene nanoribbon based on noncollinear density functional theory and non-equilibrium Green's function method. For pristine ZGNR, our results show that the ZGNR presents helical magnetization distribution due to noncollinear magnetization in left and right lead. As the ZGNR is doped with boron and nitrogen atoms, the ZGNR shows a characteristic two-zone feature in the magnetization distribution. Near the dopant site, the magnetic moment of carbon atom is small. However, the magnetic moments of carbon atoms in the left (right) region of dopant are close to those of the left (right) lead. Such a feature provides the possibility of constructing domain walls with various widths on the edge of ZGNR. Moreover, the transmission at the Fermi level (E = 0 eV) decreases with the increase of relative angle between magnetizations of left and right lead, indicating that the spin-flip scattering dominates the electronic transport. However, at E = ±0.65 eV, there is a transmission dip with low transmission, which implies that the dopant induces the strong backscattering. To understand the origin of this dip, we calculate the density of states (DOS) and project the DOS onto each atom of doped ZGNR. The projected DOS shows a large and broad peak at E = −0.65 eV for N-doped ZGNR but at E = +0.65 eV for B-doped ZGNR. The consistency between the position of dip in transmission and the position of peak in DOS indicates that the transmission dip mentioned above is attributed to strong backscattering from the dopant-induced bound state. Our theoretical results are expected to be useful for understanding the noncollinear magnetism and spin scattering in the doped ZGNR-based devices. Also, our work provides a considerable insight into the design of ZGNR-based nanoelectronic devices, such as the transistor based on spin transfer torque effect.
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Keywords:
- graphene nanoribbon /
- electronic transport /
- density functional /
- non-equilibrium Green’s function
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图 1 掺杂石墨烯纳米带的结构示意图, 其结构由左右电极、中心区组成, 左右电极磁化之间的偏转角由
$\theta$ 定义, 中心区宽度由Ly给出, buffer是为了计算收敛加入的缓冲区, 红色小球代表掺杂原子Figure 1. Schematic diagram of doped ZGNR which consists of left, right leads and central region. The relative angle between two lead magnetizations is defined by
$\theta$ . The length of central region is defined by Ly. The buffer regions are introduced for the consideration of convergence. The dopant atom is denoted by red sphere.
图 2 (a)—(f) 不同角度下的未掺杂石墨烯纳米带的磁化分布; (g) 透射系数; (h) 能带结构(红色与黑色分别代表自旋向上和自旋向下)
Figure 2. (a)−(f) Magnetization distribution; (g) transmission; (h) band structure of undoped ZGNR (red and black lines in (h) denote up-spin and down-spin).
图 3 氮原子掺杂的石墨烯纳米带在不同角度下的磁化分布
Figure 3. Magnetization distribution of N-doped ZGNR.
图 4 石墨烯纳米带投影到几个原子上的电子态密度 (a) 未掺杂; (b) 硼掺杂; (c) 氮掺杂. C1代表中心区上边缘的最左边的碳原子, C8代表掺杂原子左侧的最近邻碳原子, B/N代表掺杂原子, C9代表未掺杂时上边缘最中心的碳原子
Figure 4. Projected density of states: (a) Undoped; (b) B-doped; (c) N-doped ZGNR. C1 denotes the leftmost carbon atom on the upper edge. C8 denotes the left nearest neighboring carbon atom of the dopant. B/N is boron/nitrogen atom. C9 denotes the central carbon atom in the upper edge of undoped ZGNR.
图 5 硼原子掺杂的石墨烯纳米带在不同角度下的磁化分布
Figure 5. Magnetization distribution of B-doped ZGNR.
图 6
$\theta=30$ °时未掺杂与硼/氮掺杂的石墨烯纳米带的上边缘碳原子的(a)磁矩大小和(b)方向与碳原子位置之间的关系Figure 6. (a) Size and (b) direction of magnetic moment of atoms in upper edge of ZGNR as function of atom position at
$\theta=30$ °.
图 7 掺杂石墨烯纳米带的透射系数和投影态密度与能量之间的关系 (a), (b)为氮掺杂; (c), (d)为硼掺杂
Figure 7. Transmission (top panel) and projected density of states (bottom panel) of doped ZGNRs as function of energy: (a), (b) N-doping; (c), (d) B-doping.
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Google Scholar
[2] Wang W X, Zhou M, Li X Q, Li S Y, Wu X S, Duan W H, He L 2016 Phys. Rev. B 93 241403
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[5] Chen X B, Liu Y Z, Gu B L, Duan W H, Liu F 2014 Phys. Rev. B 90 121403
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Google Scholar
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Deng X Q, Sun L, Li C X 2016 Acta Phys. Sin. 65 068503
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Lin Q, Chen Y X, Wu J B, Kong Z M 2011 Acta Phys. Sin. 60 097103 (in Chinese)
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Li J, Zhang Z H, Wang C Z, Deng X Q, Fan Z Q 2013 Acta Phys. Sin. 62 036103 (in Chinese)
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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