Iron-phthalocyanine molecular junction with high spin filter efficiency and negative differential resistance

• Main Authors: Huang, Jing, Xu, Ke, Lei, Shulai, Su, Haibin, Yang, Shangfeng, Li, Qunxiang, Yang, Jinlong
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science & Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Mechanical strength of materials
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/95241; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/9314
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We investigate the spin transport properties of iron-phthalocyanine (FePc) molecule sandwiched between two N-doped graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) based on the density functional theory and nonequilibrium Green's function methods. Our calculated results clearly reveal that the FePc molecular juncti...