Spin-filtering and Disorder Induced Giant Magnetoresistance in Carbon Nanotubes: Ab Initio Calculations

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2011-03-27

arxiv.org/abs/1103.5177v2

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Condensed Matter

Materials Science

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Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes can provide reactive sites on the porphyrin-like defects. It's well known that many porphyrins have transition metal atoms, and we have explored transition metal atoms bonded to those porphyrin-like defects in N-doped carbon nanotubes. The electronic structure and transport are analyzed by means of a combination of density functional theory and recursive Green's functions methods. The results determined the Heme B-like defect (an iron atom bonded to four nitrogens) as the most stable and with a higher polarization current for a single defect. With randomly positioned Heme B-defects in a few hundred nanometers long nanotubes the polarization reaches near 100% meaning an effective spin filter. A disorder induced magnetoresistance effect is also observed in those long nanotubes, values as high as 20000% are calculated with non-magnectic eletrodes.

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