Abstract
Metal-free magnetism and spin caloritronics are at the forefront of condensed-matter physics. Here, the electronic structures and thermal spin-dependent transport properties of armchair graphene nanoribbons (N-AGNRs), where N is the ribbon width (N = 5–23), are systematically studied. The results show that the indirect band gaps exhibit not only oscillatory behavior but also periodic characteristics with E3p > E3p+1 > E3p+2 (E3p, E3p+1 and E3p+2 are the band gaps energy) for a certain integer p, with increasing AGNR width. The magnetic ground states are ferromagnetic (FM) with a Curie temperatures (TC) above room temperature. Furthermore, the spin-up and spin-down currents with opposite directions, generated by a temperature gradient, are almost symmetrical, indicating the appearance of the perfect spin-dependent Seebeck effect (SDSE). Moreover, thermally driven spin currents through the nanodevices induced the spin-Seebeck diode (SSD) effect. Our calculation results indicated that AGNRs can be applied in thermal spin nanodevices.
Highlights
Spin caloritronics, combining spintronics and thermoelectronics, plays an extremely important role in the development of fundamental science and novel low-power-consumption technologies[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]
Our results indicate that AGNRs are promising for application in spin caloritronic devices
The temperature applied at the source is denoted TL, while that applied at the drain is denoted TR; the temperature gradient is ΔT = TL-TR
Summary
Spin caloritronics, combining spintronics and thermoelectronics, plays an extremely important role in the development of fundamental science and novel low-power-consumption technologies[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. In this field, Uchida et al made the pioneering discovery of the spin Seebeck effect (SSE), in which a spin current and an associated spin voltage are induced only by a temperature gradient[8]. Our results indicate that AGNRs are promising for application in spin caloritronic devices
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