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 …

A new paradigm to half-metallicity in graphene nanoribbons

J Yu, W Guo - The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2013 - ACS Publications
In contrast to the well-recognized transverse-electric-field-induced half-metallicity in zigzag
graphene nanoribbons, here, we demonstrate by first-principles calculations that zigzag …

Building half-metallicity in graphene nanoribbons by direct control over edge states occupation

XH Zheng, XL Wang, TA Abtew… - The Journal of Physical …, 2010 - ACS Publications
Electronic structures of zigzag edged graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) doped with boron (B)
or nitrogen (N) atoms are investigated by spin polarized first-principles calculations. We find …

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 …

Intrinsic half-metallicity in modified graphene nanoribbons

S Dutta, AK Manna, SK Pati - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
We perform first-principles calculations based on density functional theory to study quasi-
one-dimensional edge-passivated (with hydrogen) zigzag graphene nanoribbons of various …

Half-metallicity in undoped and boron doped graphene nanoribbons in the presence of semilocal exchange-correlation interactions

S Dutta, SK Pati - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2008 - ACS Publications
We perform density functional calculations on one-dimensional zigzag edge graphene
nanoribbons (ZGNRs) of different widths, with and without edge doping including semilocal …

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 …

Magnetism of topological boundary states induced by boron substitution in graphene nanoribbons

N Friedrich, P Brandimarte, J Li, S Saito… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs), low-dimensional platforms for carbon-based electronics,
show the promising perspective to also incorporate spin polarization in their conjugated …

One-dimensional magnetic conduction channels across zigzag graphene nanoribbon/hexagonal boron nitride heterojunctions

M Pizzochero, NV Tepliakov, J Lischner, AA Mostofi… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
We examine the electronic structure of recently fabricated in-plane heterojunctions of zigzag
graphene nanoribbons embedded in hexagonal boron nitride. We focus on hitherto …

Conductance recovery and spin polarization in boron and nitrogen co-doped graphene nanoribbons

SS Kim, HS Kim, HS Kim, YH Kim - Carbon, 2015 - Elsevier
We present an ab initio study of the structural, electronic, and quantum transport properties
of B–N-complex edge-doped graphene nanoribbons (GNRs). We find that the B–N edge …