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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
Volume 116, Issue 1, Pages 1174-1178Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp2077374
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- Basque Departamento de Educacion
- UPV/EHU [IT-366-07]
- Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia [FIS2010-19609-CO2-02]
- ETORTEK
- Basque Departamento de Industria
- Diputacion Foral de Guipuzcoa
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Graphene, due to its exceptional properties, is a promising material for nanotechnology applications. In this context, the ability to tune the properties of graphene-based materials and devices with the incorporation of defects and impurities can be of extraordinary importance. Here, we investigate the effect of uniaxial tensile strain on the electronic and magnetic properties of graphene doped with substitutional Ni impurities (Ni-sub). We have found that, although Ni-sub defects are nonmagnetic in the relaxed layer, uniaxial strain induces a spin moment in the system. The spin moment increases with the applied strain up to values of 0.3-0.4 mu(B) per Ni-sub, until a critical strain of similar to 6.5% is reached. At this point, a sharp transition to a high-spin state (similar to 1.9 mu(B)) is observed. This magnetoelastic effect could be utilized to design strain-tunable spin devices based on Ni-doped graphene.
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