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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 114, Issue 9, Pages 4190-4193Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp911203n
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- National Science Foundation of China [10774148, 109041418]
- Special Funds for Major State Basic Research Project of China [200703925004]
- Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Director Grams of CASHIPS
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Electronic structures of zigzag edged graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) doped with boron (B) or nitrogen (N) atoms are investigated by spin polarized first-principle calculations. We find the a ZGNRs can be tuned to be either semiconducting, half-metallic by controlling the distance of the impurity atoms to the edges. A new scheme is identified to achieve full half-metallicity in ZGNRs by doping B atom at one edge and N atom at the other. We find that the origin of the half-metallicity is due to interaction between the edge states and B/N atoms which results in direct control over the electron occupation of the edge states. This mechanism is so robust that full half-metallicity can always be produced in ZGNRs irrespective of the ribbon width, which opens new possibilities for applications of ZGNRs in spintronic devices.
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