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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 13, Issue 34, Pages 15546-15553Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c1cp21159e
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [10774091, 20973102]
- National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) [2007CB613302]
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Very recently, two-dimensional nanosheets of MoSe2, MoTe2 and WS2 were successfully synthesized experimentally [Science, 2011, 331, 568]. In the present work, the electronic and magnetic properties of perfect, vacancy-doped, and nonmetal element (H, B, C, N, O, and F) adsorbed MoSe2, MoTe2 and WS2 monolayers are systematically investigated by means of first-principles calculations to give a detailed understanding of these materials. It is found that: (1) MoSe2, MoTe2 and WS2 exhibit surprising confinement-induced indirect-direct-gap crossover; (2) among all the neutral native vacancies of MoSe2, MoTe2 and WS2 monolayers, only the Mo vacancy in MoSe2 can induce spin-polarization and long-range antiferromagnetic coupling; (3) adsorption of nonmetal elements on the surface of MoSe2, MoTe2 and WS2 nanosheets can induce a local magnetic moment; H-absorbed WS2, MoSe2, and MoTe2 monolayers and F-adsorbed WS2 and MoSe2 monolayers show long-range antiferromagnetic coupling between local moments even when their distance is as long as similar to 12 angstrom. These findings are a useful addition to the experimental studies of these new synthesized two-dimensional nanosheets, and suggest a new route to facilitate the design of spintronic devices for complementing graphene. Further experimental studies are expected to confirm the attractive predictions.
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