The effect of vacancies on magnetic properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons

Document Type : supplement

Authors

1 Bu-Ali Sina University

2 Department of Physics, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan

3 Department of Physics, Payame Noor University, Tehran

Abstract

In the absence of lattice defects, pristine graphene and hydrogen-terminated armchair graphene nanoribbons are non-magnetic materials. The presence of vacancies extremely effect on the magnetic properties and they can produce remarkable spin polarization in these materials. In this study, using first principles calculations based on Kohn-Sham density functional theory (KS-DFT), the effect of the presence of vacancies on magnetic properties and spin polarization of monolayer and bilayer armchair graphene nanoribbons are investigated. The results show that the magnitude of magnetic moments depends on the number and configuration of vacancies, their distance from each other as well as from nanoribbons' edges.

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Volume 6, Special Issue (2)
The Conference on Many-Body Systems (Bulk and Nano-scale). K. N. Toosi University of Technology, 12 November 2015
December 2016
Pages 57-63
  • Receive Date: 03 February 2016
  • Revise Date: 24 April 2016
  • Accept Date: 19 December 2016