Half-metallic materials play an essential
role in the spin-dependent
transport study, and so far it is believed that the 3d transitional
metal elements are necessary to obtain a ferromagnetic state. Herein,
we demonstrate that the metal free two-dimensional graphitic carbon
nitride (g-C4N3) film show half metallic state
and this is independent of the film thickness and stacking order.
We find that the half-metallicity results in a very large magnetoresistance
even at finite bias. Moreover, we have also investigated various optical
properties. The g-C4N3 thin films have a very
high refractive index for parallel polarization and extremely weak
reflectivity for perpendicular polarization. Additionally, the g-C4N3 thin films are optically transparent because
of very weak absorption coefficients. Overall, our findings suggest
that the transparent half-metallic g-C4N3 thin
films can be used for both spintronics and optical applications because
of potential multifunctionality.