title: Half-metallicity in undoped and boron doped graphene nanoribbons in the presence of semilocal exchange-correlation interactions.
abstract: We perform density functional calculations on one-dimensional zigzag edge graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) of different widths, with and without edge doping including semilocal exchange correlations. Our study reveals that, although the ground state of edge-passivated (with hydrogen) ZGNRs prefers to be anti-ferromagnetic, the doping of both of the edges with boron atoms stabilizes the system in a ferromagnetic ground state. Both the local and semilocal exchange correlations result in half-metallicity in edge-passivated ZGNRs at a finite cross-ribbon electric field. However, the ZGNR with boron edges shows half-metallic behavior irrespective of the ribbon width even in the absence of electric field and this property sustains for any field strength, opening a huge possibility of applications in spintronics.
authors.affiliation: Theoretical Sciences Unit and DST Unit on Nanoscience, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research, Jakkur Campus, Bangalore 560064, India.
authors.forename: Sudipta
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dutta
authors.forename: Swapan K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Pati