Unusual electronic and magnetic properties of lateral phosphorene–WSe2 heterostructures

Xiao-Qing Tian; Lin Liu; Zhi-Rui Gong; Yu Du; Juan Gu; Boris I. Yakobson; Jian-Bin Xu

doi:10.1039/C6TC01978A

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Unusual electronic and magnetic properties of lateral phosphorene–WSe₂ heterostructures†

Xiao-Qing Tian,^a Lin Liu,^a Zhi-Rui Gong,^a Yu Du,*^a Juan Gu,^a Boris I. Yakobson*^b and Jian-Bin Xu^c

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^a College of Physics and Energy, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, Guangdong, P. R. China
E-mail: duyu@szu.edu.cn

^b Department of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Department of Chemistry, and the Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, USA
E-mail: biy@rice.edu

^c Department of Electronic Engineering and Materials Science and Technology Research Center, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, People's Republic of China

Abstract

The unusual electronic and magnetic properties of in-plane phosphorene/WSe₂ heterostructures are theoretically investigated. Due to strong spin–orbit-coupling (SOC), a giant magnetocrystalline anisotropy energy with an easy out-of-plane magnetization is realized in the lateral phosphorene/WSe₂ heterostructures. The heterostructures can be either half-metallic or metallic dependent on their edges and sizes. In light of these results, it is expected that in-plane heterostructures of phosphorene/graphene will provide abundant opportunities for applications in spintronic and electronic devices.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C6TC01978A
Article type: Paper
Submitted: 13 May 2016
Accepted: 16 Jun 2016
First published: 16 Jun 2016

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J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016,4, 6657-6665

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Unusual electronic and magnetic properties of lateral phosphorene–WSe₂ heterostructures

X. Tian, L. Liu, Z. Gong, Y. Du, J. Gu, B. I. Yakobson and J. Xu, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 6657 DOI: 10.1039/C6TC01978A

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