Hydrogenated graphene nanoribbons for spintronics

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We show how hydrogenation of graphene nanoribbons at small concentrations can open venues toward carbon-based spintronics applications regardless of any specific edge termination or passivation of the nanoribbons. Density-functional theory calculations show that an adsorbed H atom induces a spin density on the surrounding pi orbitals whose symmetry and degree of localization depends on the distance to the edges of the nanoribbon. As expected for graphene-based systems, these induced magnetic moments interact ferromagnetically or antiferromagnetically depending on the relative adsorption graphene sublattice, but the magnitude of the interactions are found to strongly vary with the position of the H atoms relative to the edges. We also calculate, with the help of the Hubbard model, the transport properties of hydrogenated armchair semiconducting graphene nanoribbons in the diluted regime and show how the exchange coupling between H atoms can be exploited in the design of novel magnetoresistive devices.
Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
Issue Date
2010
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

HUBBARD-MODEL; DEVICE

Citation

PHYSICAL REVIEW B, v.81, no.16

ISSN
1098-0121
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.81.165409
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/94770
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