TY - JOUR
T1 - Fluorinated h-BN As a magnetic semiconductor
AU - Radhakrishnan, Sruthi
AU - Das, Deya
AU - Samanta, Atanu
AU - De Los Reyes, Carlos A.
AU - Deng, Liangzi
AU - Alemany, Lawrence B.
AU - Weldeghiorghis, Thomas K.
AU - Khabashesku, Valery N.
AU - Kochat, Vidya
AU - Jin, Zehua
AU - Sudeep, Parambath M.
AU - Martí, Angel A.
AU - Chu, Ching Wu
AU - Roy, Ajit
AU - Tiwary, Chandra Sekhar
AU - Singh, Abhishek K.
AU - Ajayan, Pulickel M.
N1 - Funding Information:
S.R., C.S.T., and P.M.A. acknowledge the funding support from the U.S. Department of Defense: U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research for the Project MURI (Multi-University Research Initiative): "Synthesis and characterization of 3-D carbon nanotube solid networks" award no. FA9550-12-1-0035. A.A.M. acknowledges funds from the NSF (grant 1610175). D.D., A.S., and A.K.S. acknowledge funding from Department of Science and Technology Nano Mission. We thank "SahasraT," Cray XC40 Cluster of Supercomputer Education and Research Center and Materials Research Center, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore for providing the required computational facilities. L.D. and C.-W.C. acknowledge funding from U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Grant FA9550-15-1-0236, the T.L.L. Temple Foundation, the John J. and Rebecca Moores Endowment, and the State of Texas through the Texas Center for Superconductivity at the University of Houston.
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PY - 2017/7/5
Y1 - 2017/7/5
N2 - We report the fluorination of electrically insulating hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and the subsequent modification of its electronic band structure to a wide bandgap semiconductor via introduction of defect levels. The electrophilic nature of fluorine causes changes in the charge distribution around neighboring nitrogen atoms in h-BN, leading to room temperature weak ferromagnetism. The observations are further supported by theoretical calculations considering various possible configurations of fluorinated h-BN structure and their energy states. This unconventional magnetic semiconductor material could spur studies of stable two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors. Although the high thermal and chemical stability of h-BN have found a variety of uses, this chemical functionalization approach expands its functionality to electronic and magnetic devices.
AB - We report the fluorination of electrically insulating hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and the subsequent modification of its electronic band structure to a wide bandgap semiconductor via introduction of defect levels. The electrophilic nature of fluorine causes changes in the charge distribution around neighboring nitrogen atoms in h-BN, leading to room temperature weak ferromagnetism. The observations are further supported by theoretical calculations considering various possible configurations of fluorinated h-BN structure and their energy states. This unconventional magnetic semiconductor material could spur studies of stable two-dimensional magnetic semiconductors. Although the high thermal and chemical stability of h-BN have found a variety of uses, this chemical functionalization approach expands its functionality to electronic and magnetic devices.
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U2 - 10.1126/sciadv.1700842
DO - 10.1126/sciadv.1700842
M3 - Article
C2 - 28740867
AN - SCOPUS:85043494300
SN - 2375-2548
VL - 3
JO - Science Advances
JF - Science Advances
IS - 7
M1 - e1700842
ER -