Finding new two-dimensional (2D) materials with novel quantum properties is highly desirable for technological innovations. In this work, we studied a series of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with different metal cores and discovered various attractive properties, such as room-temperature magnetic ordering, strong perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, huge topological band gap (>200meV), and excellent spin-filtering performance. As many MOFs have been successfully synthesized in experiments, our results suggest realistic new 2D functional materials for the design of spintronic nanodevices.
@article{arxiv.2011.07088,
title = {Metal-organic Frameworks: Possible New Two-Dimensional Magnetic and Topological materials},
author = {Jie Li and Ruqian Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.07088},
year = {2020}
}