Effective Zeeman splitting in bent lateral heterojunctions of graphene and hexagonal boron nitride: a new mechanism towards half-metallicity

L Yue, G Seifert, K Chang, DB Zhang - Physical Review B, 2017 - APS
Low-dimensional half-metallic (HM) systems are invaluable for future spintronics. Yet a
definitive experimental demonstration of HM characteristic in two-dimensional (2D) materials …

Enhanced half-metallicity in orientationally misaligned graphene/hexagonal boron nitride lateral heterojunctions

J Zeng, W Chen, P Cui, DB Zhang, Z Zhang - Physical Review B, 2016 - APS
The ever increasing level of control in the fabrication of graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (h-
BN) lateral heterostructures makes it promising for material realization of exotic electronic …

Strain-tunable half-metallicity in hybrid graphene-hBN monolayer superlattices

F Meng, S Zhang, IH Lee, S Jun, CV Ciobanu - Applied Surface Science, 2016 - Elsevier
As research in 2-D materials evolves toward combinations of different materials, interesting
electronic and spintronic properties are revealed and may be exploited in future devices. A …

Inhomogeneous strain-induced half-metallicity in bent zigzag graphene nanoribbons

DB Zhang, SH Wei - npj Computational Materials, 2017 - nature.com
Realization of half-metallicity in low dimensional materials is a fundamental challenge for
nano spintronics, which is a critical component for next-generation information technology …

Lateral heterojunctions within monolayer h-BN/graphene: a first-principles study

Q Sun, Y Dai, Y Ma, W Wei, B Huang - RSC Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Very recently, the lateral heterojunctions of hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN)/graphene were
experimentally realized for the time. To study the related properties of such heterojunctions …

Dirac half-semimetallicity and antiferromagnetism in graphene nanoribbon/hexagonal boron nitride heterojunctions

NV Tepliakov, R Ma, J Lischner, E Kaxiras… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Half-metals have been envisioned as active components in spintronic devices by virtue of
their completely spin-polarized electrical currents. Actual materials hosting half-metallic …

Tuning Magnetic States of Planar Graphene/h-BN Monolayer Heterostructures via Interface Transition Metal-Vacancy Complexes

B Ouyang, J Song - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016 - ACS Publications
Planar graphene/h-BN (GPBN) heterostructures promise low-dimensional magnetic
semiconductor materials of tunable bandgap. In the present study, interplay between 3d …

Strain-tuned magnetism and half-metal to metal transition in defective BCN monolayer

J Wang, L Kou, Y Ni, X Hu - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Recently, two-dimensional (2D) BCN, an in-plane heterostructure formed by
graphene and hexagonal boron nitride, has been successfully synthesized experimentally …

Gate-induced half metals in Bernal-stacked graphene multilayers

M Liang, S Li, JH Gao - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
Recent experiments indicate that Bernal stacked graphene multilayers (BGMs) have an
interaction-induced gapped (or pseudogapped) ground state. Here, we propose that, due to …

Band engineering of large scale graphene/hexagonal boron nitride in-plane heterostructure: Role of the connecting angle

Y Li, Z Feng, Y Ma, Y Tang, L Ruan, Y Wang… - Physica E: Low …, 2021 - Elsevier
The modulation of the interface topography in two-dimensional (2D) lateral heterostructure
(LHS) is significant for adjusting their electronic properties. However, previous theoretical …