Charge-injection induced magnetism and half metallicity in single-layer hexagonal group III/V (BN, BP, AlN, AlP) systems

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Wu, Menghao ^a   Zhang, Zhuhua ^a,b   Zeng, Xiao Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALN; BORON PHOSPHIDE; FERROMAGNETIC BEHAVIORS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HALF METALS; HALF-METALLICITY; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; INDUCED MAGNETISM; NANORIBBONS; POSITIVE CHARGES; SINGLE LAYER; STONER CRITERION;

ALUMINUM; ALUMINUM NITRIDE; BORON; ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION; FERROMAGNETISM; MAGNETIC MOMENTS; NITRIDES;

BORON NITRIDE;

EID: 77956381034     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3484957     Document Type: Article

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