1305.5861 (Bin Ouyang et al.)

Strain engineering of magnetic states of vacancy-decorated hexagonal
boron nitride    [PDF]

Bin Ouyang, Jun Song

Novel materials with tunable magnetic states play a significant role in the development of next-generation spintronic devices. In this paper, we examine the role of biaxial strain on the electronic properties of vacancy-decorated hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) monolayers using density functional theory calculations. We found that the strain can lead to switching of the magnetic state for h-BN monolayers with boron vacancy or divacancy. Our findings promise a new route for the operation of low-dimensional spintronic devices.

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