Transport Property of Wrinkled Graphene Nanoribbon Tuned by Spin-Polarized Gate Made of Vanadium-Benzene Nanowire

A series of four-terminal V(7)(Bz)(8)-WGNR devices were established with wrinkled graphene nanoribbon (WGNR) and vanadium-benzene nanowire (V(7)(Bz)(8)). The spin-polarized V(7)(Bz)(8) as the gate channel was placed crossing the plane, the concave (endo-positioned) and the convex (endo-positioned) surface of WGNR with different curvatures via Van der Waals interaction. The density functional theory (DFT) and nonequilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) methods were adopted to calculate the transport properties of these devices at various bias voltages (V(S)) and gate voltages (V(G)), such as the conductance, spin-polarized currents, transmission spectra (TS), local density of states (LDOS), and scattering states. The results indicate that the position of V(7)(Bz)(8) and the bending curvature of WGNR play important roles in tuning the transport properties of these four-terminal devices. A spin-polarized transport property is induced for these four-terminal devices by the spin-polarized nature of V(7)(Bz)(8). Particularly, the down-spin channel disturbs strongly on the source-to-drain conductance of WGNR when V(7)(Bz)(8) is endo-positioned crossing the WGNR. Our findings on the novel property of four-terminal V(7)(Bz)(8)-WGNR devices provide useful guidelines for achieving flexible graphene-based electronic nanodevices by attaching other similar multidecker metal-arene nanowires.