Giant Magnetoresistance and Rectification Behavior in Fluorinated Zigzag Boron Nitride Nanoribbon for Spintronic Nanodevices

Abstract

In the present work, the spin-polarized structural and electronic properties of fluorine (F) passivated zigzag boron nitride nanoribbons (ZBNNRs) at the selective boron (B) and nitrogen (N) edge atoms are investigated. This study is based on the density functional theory (DFT) along with non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) formalism. Our study predicts that half-metallic property can be obtained in ZBNNRs via F passivation at selective edges. The F-passivated ZBNNRs are found to be structurally stable in both non-magnetic as well as magnetic ground states irrespective of their width. Hence, the transport properties of F-passivated ZBNNRs are also studied as fluorinated structures are reported to be more stable. The current-voltage characteristic of F-passivated ZBNNRs based devices exhibit the perfect spin-filter characteristics with magnificently high spin-filtering efficiency (SFE) even under a low bias. It is worth mentioning here that giant magnetoresistance resistance (GMR), and rectification ratio of the order of 10⁸and 10⁵ have also been observed for F-BN-F devices. This is because dangling bonds break the edge states' symmetry and induce some localized states, which suppress the electron transmission and reduce the current. The observed perfect spin-filtering characteristics, GMR, and rectifying characteristics suggest that Fpassivated ZBNNRs have immense potentials to be deployed for nanoscale spintronic devices.