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A density functional study of strong local magnetism creation on MoS 2 nanoribbon by sulfur vacancy

Shidpour, R ; Sharif University of Technology | 2010

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1039/b9nr00368a
  3. Publisher: 2010
  4. Abstract:
  5. In this study a low-width MoS2 ribbon has been used for probing the electronic structure and local magnetic moment near vacancies. A theoretical study with the full-potential Density Functional Theory (DFT) approach (Wien2K code) have shown that when the dimension of MoS2 is reduced from 2-D to 1-D the nonmagnetic semi-conductor MoS2 becomes a magnetic conductor. Our study has shown that a vacancy on the S-edge with 50% coverage intensifies the magnetization of the edge of the MoS2 nanoribbon but such a vacancy on S-edge with 100% coverage causes this magnetic property to disappear. It is concluded that in both of them, there are positive or negative strong gradients of local magnetic moment near the vacancy. This may explain why lattice defects are essential for catalysis processes
  6. Keywords:
  7. A-density ; Catalysis process ; Lattice defects ; Local magnetic moments ; Magnetic conductors ; Nanoribbons ; Nonmagnetics ; Potential density ; Semi-conductor ; Theoretical study ; Electronic structure ; Magnetic materials ; Magnetic moments ; Magnetic properties ; Molybdenum compounds ; Sulfur ; Vacancies ; Density functional theory ; یisulfide ; Molybdenum disulfide ; Nanoparticle ; Catalysis ; Chemistry ; Magnetism ; Theoretical model ; Catalysis ; Disulfides ; Magnetics ; Models, Theoretical ; Molybdenum ; Nanoparticles
  8. Source: Nanoscale ; Volume 2, Issue 8 , 2010 , Pages 1429-1435 ; 20403364 (ISSN)
  9. URL: http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2010/NR/b9nr00368a#!divAbstract