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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/srep44568
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- Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin City [15JCYBJC52800]
- Technology Foundation for Selected Overseas Chinese Scholar [CG2015008001]
- Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province of China [E2016202023]
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Recently, SnO has attracted more and more attention, because it is a bipolar electronic material holding great potential in the design of p-n junction. In this paper, we examine the effect of extrinsic point defects on modifying the electronic and magnetic properties of SnO using density functionals theory (DFT). The surface adatoms considered are B, C, N, O and F with a [He] core electronic configuration. All adatoms are found energetically stable. B, C, N and F adatoms will modify the band gap and introduce band gap states. In addition, our calculations show that N, B and F can introduce stable local magnetic moment to the lattice. Our results, therefore, offer a possible route to tailor the electronic and magnetic properties of SnO by surface functionalization, which will be helpful to experimentalists in improving the performance of SnO-based electronic devices and opening new avenue for its spintronics applications.
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