TY - JOUR
T1 - Electronic properties of fluorine/hydrogen adsorbed two-dimensional tetrahex-carbon
T2 - A first-principles study
AU - Yang, Ying
AU - Yang, Guang
AU - Peng, Xihong
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.51207128). The authors thank Arizona State University Advanced Computing Center for providing computing resources (Agave Cluster).
Funding Information:
This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51207128 ). The authors thank Arizona State University Advanced Computing Center for providing computing resources (Agave Cluster).
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© 2020 Elsevier B.V.
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PY - 2020/11/1
Y1 - 2020/11/1
N2 - A recently proposed two-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope, tetrahex-carbon, draws scientific attention due to its remarkable electronic and mechanical properties. This 2D carbon structure consists of tetragonal and hexagonal rings, and exhibits excellent semiconductor properties including a finite direct band gap and high carrier mobility, suggesting potential applications in semiconductor devices. In this paper, the electronic properties of fluorine/hydrogen adsorbed tetrahex-C was investigated via first-principles density-functional theory calculations. It demonstrates that its band structure can be significantly tuned and could be metallic with dangling bonds from F/H adsorption. With increasing F/H adsorption density, it shows semiconducting behavior and the band gap is widening, mainly due to the sp2-bonded carbon being gradually converted to sp3 hybridization. It was also found that effective masses of charge carriers along the zigzag-direction can largely reduce through adsorption of F/H, leading to potentially enhanced carrier mobility. Tetrahex-C shows prominent anisotropicity and the tunability of effective masses through F/H adsorption is remarkably dependent on the crystal orientation. In addition, it was found that, the work function of the F-adsorbed tetrahex-C increases while electron affinity decreases, compared to the pristine one. However, the H-covered carbon film shows significant reductions of both work function and electron affinity.
AB - A recently proposed two-dimensional (2D) carbon allotrope, tetrahex-carbon, draws scientific attention due to its remarkable electronic and mechanical properties. This 2D carbon structure consists of tetragonal and hexagonal rings, and exhibits excellent semiconductor properties including a finite direct band gap and high carrier mobility, suggesting potential applications in semiconductor devices. In this paper, the electronic properties of fluorine/hydrogen adsorbed tetrahex-C was investigated via first-principles density-functional theory calculations. It demonstrates that its band structure can be significantly tuned and could be metallic with dangling bonds from F/H adsorption. With increasing F/H adsorption density, it shows semiconducting behavior and the band gap is widening, mainly due to the sp2-bonded carbon being gradually converted to sp3 hybridization. It was also found that effective masses of charge carriers along the zigzag-direction can largely reduce through adsorption of F/H, leading to potentially enhanced carrier mobility. Tetrahex-C shows prominent anisotropicity and the tunability of effective masses through F/H adsorption is remarkably dependent on the crystal orientation. In addition, it was found that, the work function of the F-adsorbed tetrahex-C increases while electron affinity decreases, compared to the pristine one. However, the H-covered carbon film shows significant reductions of both work function and electron affinity.
KW - Adsorption
KW - Band gap
KW - Effective mass
KW - Fluorinated
KW - Hydrogenated
KW - Tetrahex-C
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U2 - 10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147150
DO - 10.1016/j.apsusc.2020.147150
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087785216
SN - 0169-4332
VL - 529
JO - Applied Surface Science
JF - Applied Surface Science
M1 - 147150
ER -