Spin transport investigation of two type silicene nanoribbons heterostructure

Abstract

Based on first principles calculation method, we design and investigate the spin transport properties of two type heterostructures based on zigzag silicene nanoribbons (ZSiNRs). The first one consists of hydrogen-terminated ZSiNR (ZSiNR-H) and Rx-terminated ZSiNR (ZSiNR-Rx), here, Rx = O, S, P. The rectification behavior can be observed for heterostructures consisting of ZSiNR-H and ZSiNR-O (ZSiNR-S). The second one can be fabricated with a ZSiNR-Rx central scatter region between two ZSiNR-H electrodes. The results show that this device could maintain its good spin filtering effect for ZSiNR-O model in parallel (P) and antiparallel (AP) spin configuration with large bias range. Then we further investigate the spin-dependent transport with various length of ZSiNR-O region, and find that better spin filtering effect (near 100% spin polarization) can be observed for longer ZSiNR-O region. ZSiNR-S model show analogous spin filtering effect. However, neither rectification behavior nor spin filtering effect arise for ZSiNR-P models.