Abstract
Spin-polarized transport through a rhombic graphene quantum dot (rGQD)
attached to armchair graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) electrodes is
investigated by means of the Green's function technique combined with
single-band tight-binding (TB) approach including a Hubbard-like term.
The Hubbard repulsion was included within the mean-field approximation.
Compared to anti-ferromagnetic (AFM), we show that the ferromagnetic
(FM) ordering of the rGQD corresponds to a smaller bandgap, thus
resulting in an efficient spin injector. As a consequence, the electron
transport spectrum reveals a spin valve effect, which is controlled by
doping with B/N atoms creating a p-n-type junction. The calculations
point out that such systems can be used as spin-filter devices with
efficiency close to a 100%. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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