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Chaoyu He1, Yujie Liao1, Tao Ouyang1
1Laboratory for Quantum Engineering and Micro-Nano Energy Technology and School of Physics and Optoelectronics, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, China.
Abstract:
Half-filled isolated flat-band paves a new way to realize high-temperature ferromagnetic semiconductor for spintronics applications, but it is extremely rare in lattice models and lacking in realistic materials. Herein, the 2 × 2 super-cell of the honeycomb lattice with a single-hole defect is proposed as a new lattice model (HL-D-1/8) to realize nontrivial isolated flat-bands. We further demonstrate that C4N3 monolayer of the experimentally realized graphitic carbon nitride (Adv. Mater., 22, 1004, 2010; Nat. Commun., 9, 3366, 2018) is a perfect system holding such a lattice to host flat-bands. A new corrugated Pca21 configuration is proposed as the ground state for the free-standing C4N3 monolayer, which is dynamically stable and energetically more favorable than the widely-used flat one without dynamical stability. The Pca21 configuration is found to be an intrinsic ferromagnetic half-semiconductor (T c ≈ 241 K) with one semiconducting spin-channel (1.75 eV) and one insulating spin-channel (3.64 eV), which is quite rare in two-dimensional systems. Its ferromagnetic semiconducting property originates from the isolated p -state flat-band as the corrugation shifts the flat-band upward to the Fermi level. Interestingly, such a corrugated Pca21 C4N3 monolayer is found to be both piezoelectric and ferroelectric, which makes it an unusual metal-free two-dimensional multiferroic.
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