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中国物理学会期刊

具有连续反量子点的石墨烯纳米带中纯自旋流的实现

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.70.20210242

Generation of pure spin current in graphene nanoribbons with continous antidots

CSTR: 32037.14.aps.70.20210242
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  • 热自旋电子学结合了热电子学和自旋电子学二者的优势, 在构建高速、低能耗器件技术上具有广泛的应用前景. 本文基于密度泛函理论和非平衡格林函数相结合的方法, 研究了在铁磁态石墨烯纳米带中沿带宽方向引入连续反量子点(六元环缺陷)以获得纯自旋流的模型. 计算发现, 在纳米带的单边引入反量子点会破坏纳米带结构的完整性, 导致器件的透射谱在费米能级附近呈现“X”形交叉. 在温度场下, 不同自旋的电子朝相反方向流动, 形成了自旋流和电荷流, 并且通过微调器件的化学势可以获得电荷流为0, 自旋流不为0的纯自旋流. 结果表明, 对于具有W条链宽的锯齿型石墨烯纳米带, 当沿纳米带带宽方向连续引入反量子点数满足(W/2–1)时, 即可获得最大的纯自旋流, 这一研究结果为设计基于石墨烯纳米带的纯自旋流器件提供了有力的理论依据.

     

    Spin caloritronics, which combines the characteristics of thermoelectronics with the characteristics of spintronics, has a wide range of promising applications in high-speed and low-dissipation devices. In this paper, according to the density functional theory combined with nonequilibrium Green’s function method, we propose a scheme for generating pure spin current with spin dependent Seebeck effect in the zigzag-edged graphene nanoribbons by introducing continuous antidots (hexagonal defects). Specifically, by creating an antidot at one edge of the nanoribbon, an X-shape transmission spectrum around the Fermi level is formed, which results from the disrupted edge of the nanoribbon. The mechanism is well explained by the cooperation between the varying localization features of the eigenstates around the Fermi level for the unit cell and the scattering states at the Fermi level for the device. Therefore, the electrons of the two spin channels flow in the opposite directions under a temperature gradient, generating the spin current and charge current. By slightly tuning the chemical potential of the device, the charge current can be zero, while the spin current is not equal to zero. With the increase of adjacent antidot number along the width of the nanoribbons, the structures are more disrupted, thus promoting the pure spin current due to the increase of the spin Seebeck coefficient. However, for zigzag graphene nanoribbons with W zigzag carbon chains, the pure spin current decreases when the number of the antidots are more than (W/2–1), which results from the decrease of the spin conductance. So, the maximum pure spin current can be obtained when the number of the continuous antidots introduced along the width of nanoribbons reaches (W/2–1). These findings indicate a novel strategy for thermally generating the spin current by introducing continuous antidots along the nanoribbon bandwidth in zigzag graphene nanoribbons and will be greatly instructive in designing the graphene spintronic devices.

     

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