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AIP ADVANCES
Volume 4, Issue 8, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4892956
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) [11347021, 11247028, 61306122, 91121021]
- science and technology office of Jiangsu province Project [BK20141227]
- Jiangsu Qinglan Project
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Using the first-principles methods, we investigate the thermospin properties of a two-probe model based on zigzag-edge silicene nanoribbons (ZSiNRs). Compared with the odd-width ZSiNRs, the spin Seebeck coefficient of the even-width ZSiNRs is obviously enhanced at room temperature. This fact is attributed to a nearly perfect symmetry of the linear conductance gap with the different spin index with respect to the Fermi level induced by the different parity of the wave functions. More interestingly, the corresponding charge Seebeck coefficient is near zero. Therefore, when a thermal bias is presented in the even-width ZSiNRs, a nearly pure spin current is achieved. Meanwhile, the spin polarization of the current approaches infinite. (C) 2014 Author(s). All article content, except where otherwise noted, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.
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