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Fe3GeTe2 monolayer is one of the currently fabricated 2-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetic materials. Based on the first principle of density functional theory, we here study the structural stability and magneto-electronic properties of nanoribbons NR(n) obtained by cutting 2D Fe3GeTe2. The calculated binding energy and molecular dynamics simulation results identify that nanoribbons are rather stable. The large magnetic moment and magnetized energy prove the extremely high magnetism stability for NR(n). Moreover, with the increase of the width, the magnetic moment of the nanoribbons generally increases, and gradually tends to a stable value. In particular, the nanoribbons possess a high spin polarization efficiency at the Fermi level (SPF). For example, the SPF for NR(5) is up to 100%. With the width variation of the nanoribbons, the SPF has a significant odd-even oscillating effect, that is, the spin-polarization of the odd nanoribbons is higher than that of the adjacent even nanoribbons, especially when the width is in the range of n ≤ 12. This means that the α-spin and β-spin are quite different in the density of states at the Fermi level when the width is odd or even. This may be caused by the difference of the quantum confinement effect for the odd or even nanoribbons, respectively. Meanwhile, when the width of the nanoribbons is wide enough, the odd-even oscillation effect of the spin polarizability is stabilized in a relatively small range, and the nanoribbons finally tend to be 2D Fe3GeTe2 monolayer. The nanoribbons have an obvious advantage on SPF over the 2D Fe3GeTe2 monolayer. In addition, the calculation of the strain effect demonstrates that the strain can flexibly tune the SPF varying from approximately zero to 85.6%, and the SPF reaches a maximum of 85.6% at a stretch of 4%, which is a fairly high value; then reaches a minimum at a stretch of 8%, almost being zero, which means that a mechanical switch can be designed to control the low-bias spin transition, allowing it work between high spin polarization and spin unpolarization.
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图 1 (a) 2D FGT单层原子结构的顶视图和边视图, 阴影部分表示所剪裁的纳米带NR(n); (b)宽度n = 9时的FGT纳米带, 黑色虚线框代表纳米带的一个单胞
Figure 1. (a) Top and side view of atomic structure for 2D FGT monolayer, the shaded region indicates the cutting nanoribbon NR(n); (b) the FGT nanoribbon with width n = 9, and the black dashed-line box represents the unit cell of NR(9).
图 4 投影能带结构 (a) NR(4), (b) NR(5), (c) NR(6), (d) NR(8)和(e) NR(9); (f)不同宽度NR(n)的磁性原子的平均磁矩, 其中n为FGT纳米带的宽度
Figure 4. The projected band structure for (a) NR(4), (b) NR(5), (c) NR(6), (d) NR(8), and (e) NR(9), respectively; (f) magnetic moment per magnetic atom for NR(n) versus ribbon widths, where n represents the width of the FGT nanoribbons.
图 5 不同FGT纳米带的总态密度(DOS)、投影态密度(PDOS)以及费米能级上的自旋极化率 (a) NR(4), (b) NR(5), (c) NR(6), (d) NR(8) 和 (e) NR(9); (f) 不同宽度纳米带NR(n)的在费米能级上自旋极化率SPF, 其中n为FGT纳米带的宽度
Figure 5. The DOS and PDOS for (a) NR(4), (b) NR(5), (c) NR(6), (d) NR(8), and (e) NR(9); (f) the spin polarity efficiency at the Fermi level (SPF) for ribbons with various different widths NR(n), where n represents the width of the FGT nanoribbons.
图 6 应变效应 (a) 对NR(9)施加拉伸应力的模型图, 仅铁磁基态下被考虑; (b)施加不同应变时的态密度(DOS)变化情况; (c)费米能级上的自旋极化率SPF 随应变的变化; (d)磁矩(M)和磁化能(EM)随应变的变化
Figure 6. Strain effects: (a) The schematic for NR(9) applied by stretching strain, only the FM ground state is taken into account; (b) the DOS versus strains; (c) the spin polarity efficiency at the Fermi level SPF versus strains; (d) the magnetic moment (M) and magnetize energy (EM) versus strains.
表 1 FGT纳米带的结合Eb(单位: eV/atom), 磁化能EM (单位: meV/atom)和费米能级上的自旋极化率SPF(%), MM 和HM分别表示磁金属和半金属
Table 1. The binding energy Eb (in eV/atom), magnetic energy EM (in meV /atom), and spin polarized efficiency SPF(%) for FGT nanoribbons, MM and HM represent the magnetic metal and half-metal, respectively.
Structure NR(4) NR(5) NR(6) NR(8) NR(9) Eb –4.472 –4.545 –4.590 –4.648 –4.665 EM 132.958 135.814 186.930 130.815 129.212 SPF 29.570 100 55.918 11.573 66.823 Magnetic phase MM HM MM MM MM -
[1] Novoselov K S, Geim A K, Morozov S V, Jiang D, Zhang Y, Dubonos S V, Grigorieva1 I V, Firsov A A 2004 Science 306 666
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[2] Novoselov K S, Jiang D, Schedin F, Booth T J, Khotkevich V V, Morozov S V, Geim A K 2005 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102 10451
Google Scholar
[3] Zhang M, Wang X X, Cao W Q, Yuan J, Cao M S 2019 Adv. Opt. Mater. 7 1900689
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[5] Cao M S, Wang X X, Zhang M, Shu J C, Cao W Q, Yang H J, Fang X Y, Yuan J 2019 Adv. Funct. Mater. 29 1807398
Google Scholar
[6] Cahangirov S, Topsakal M, Aktürk E, Sahin H, Ciraci S 2009 Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 236804
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[7] Tang P, Chen P, Cao W, Huang H, Cahangirov S, Xian L, Rubio A 2014 Phys. Rev. B 90 121408
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[9] Xiao D, Liu G B, Feng W, Xu X, Yao W 2012 Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 196802
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[10] Kuang W, Hu R, Fan Z, Zhang Z 2019 Nanotechnology 30 145201
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[11] Blase X, Rubio A, Louie S G, Cohen M L 1995 Phys. Rev. B 51 6868
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Google Scholar
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[14] Efetov D K, Wang L, Handschin C, Efetov K B, Shuang J, Cava R, Kim P 2016 Nature Phys. 12 328
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[15] Yokoya T, Kiss T, Chainani A, Shin S, Nohara M, Takagi H 2001 Science 294 2518
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[16] Hsu F C, Luo J Y, Yeh K W, Chen T K, Huang T W, Wu P M, Wu M K 2008 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105 14262
Google Scholar
[17] Peng R, Xu H C, Tan S Y, Cao H Y, Xia M, Shen X P, Xie B P 2014 Nat. Commun. 5 5044
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[20] Liu S, Yuan X, Zou Y, Sheng Y, Huang C, Zhang E, Zou J 2017 npj 2D Mater. Appl. 1 30
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[22] Siberchicot B, Jobic S, Carteaux V, Gressier P, Ouvrard G 1996 J. Phys. Chem. 100 5863
Google Scholar
[23] Gong C 2017 Nature 546 265
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
Liu J, Hu R, Fan Z Q, Zhang Z H 2017 Acta Phys. Sin. 66 246101
Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
Hashmi A, Hong J 2017 J. Phys. Chem. C 66 238501
Google Scholar
[42] Hu R, Li Y H, Zhang Z H, Fan Z Q, Sun L 2019 J. Mater. Chem. C 7 7745
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