Spin-thermoelectric properties and giant tunneling magnetoresistance of boron-substituted graphene nanoribbon: a first principle study

Abstract

In this study we have designed a spin caloritronic device based on boron doped armchair graphene nanoribbons (B2-7AGNR). In presence of ferromagnetic (FM) graphitic-carbon nitride (g-C4N3) electrodes the spin-thermoelectric features of the device, both for FM and antiferromagnetic (AFM) states, are studied using first principle calculations. The spin polarized transmission peaks and the presence of density of states near the Fermi level indicate that the system have large spin-thermoelectric figure of merit. In addition, it is observed that the system has a large tunneling magnetoresistance due to the difference in total current between FM and AFM configurations. Further studies reveal that the spin component of the Seebeck coefficient of the device is much higher than the other zigzag and armchair nanoribbons. When the spin magnetic moments of the electrodes are aligned in parallel manner, spin-thermoelectric figure of merit of the system becomes significantly high. It has also been found that on decreasing temperature the efficiency of the device increases. As a whole, the numerical results show that g-C4N3-B2-7AGNR-g-C4N3 system in FM configuration is an efficient low temperature thermoelectric device.