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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-2-8
pubmed:abstractText
We present a theoretical study of the spin transport through a manganese phthalocyanine (MnPc) molecule sandwiched between two semi-infinite armchair single-walled carbon nanotube (SWCNT) electrodes. Ab initio modeling is performed by combing the nonequilibrium Green's function formalism with spin density functional theory. Our calculations show that MnPc not only can act as a nearly perfect spin filter, but also has a large transmission around the Fermi level, which is dominated by the highest occupied molecule orbital (HOMO). The HOMO of MnPc is found to be a singly filled doubly degenerate molecular orbital, where the electrodes' Fermi level can easily pin. The spin filter effect of MnPc is very robust regardless of whether the open ends of the SWCNT electrodes are terminated by hydrogen, fluorine, or carbon dimers, demonstrating its promising applications in future molecular spintronics.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:status
PubMed-not-MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1089-7690
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
7
pubmed:volume
132
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
054703
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-5-12
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Spin filter effect of manganese phthalocyanine contacted with single-walled carbon nanotube electrodes.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Electronics, Key Laboratory for the Physics and Chemistry of Nanodevices, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article