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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 96, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3299264
Keywords
ab initio calculations; electron spin polarisation; graphene; magnetoelectronics; magnetoresistance; spin valves
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- NanoCore at the National University of Singapore
- National Research Foundation (Singapore) [NRF-G-CRP 2007-05]
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We report ab initio calculations of spin-dependent transport in single atomic carbon chains bridging two zigzag graphene nanoribbon electrodes. Our calculations show that carbon atomic chains coupled to graphene electrodes are perfect spin-filters with almost 100% spin polarization. Moreover, the carbon atomic chains show bias-dependent magnetoresistance as large as 10(6)% which make them perfect spin-valves. These two spin-related properties are independent of the length of carbon chains. The simultaneous occurrence of spin-filter and spin-valve in a single device opens the possibilities of all-carbon composite spintronics.
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