First-principles calculation of the optical spin injection in graphane and fluorographene
摘要
We theoretically investigate the optical spin-injection response in different stoichiometric configurations of graphane and fluorographene using density functional theory. Our goal is to find which configuration gives the strongest degree of spin polarization. The results show that the fluorographene zigzag configuration yields the best degree of spin polarization response (DSPz), with 98% and −57% spin-polarized electrons at the band edge across a wide range of excitation photon energies. In contrast, other graphane and fluorographene configurations achieve a DSPz of roughly 83–100%, but only within a limited photon-excitation energy range. In structures with low spin-orbit coupling, the degree of spin polarization is close to 100% over a wide range of photon energies. For higher spin-orbit coupling, that strong response appears, but only in a narrow photon energy region. Additionally, under the band-resolved decomposition scheme, the contributions of different band-to-band transitions to the DSPz spectrum are identified by summing only the selected valence and conduction bands. Our findings show that almost the entire DSPz spectrum of the fluorographene zigzag configuration arises from transitions involving only the top valence band, which is a mixture of C-p and F-p states.