A First-principles Study of Spin-polarized Transport Properties of a Co-coordination Complex

作者:Wu Qiu Hua; Zhao Peng*; Liu De Sheng
来源:Chinese Physics Letters, 2014, 31(6): 067302.
DOI:10.1088/0256-307X/31/6/067302

摘要

Based on non-equilibrium Green's function formalism and density functional theory calculations, we investigate the spin-polarized transport properties of a Co-coordination complex between two gold electrodes, in which a Co ion is trapped between two 4-mercaptopyridine molecules. Our results demonstrate that the transmission spectra of the system show distinctive features in the spin-up and spin-down channels. Moreover, the current-voltage curves confirm that the system can exhibit robust spin-filtering effect at finite bias voltage, giving the system potential in molecular spintronics applications.