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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Li, Yafei
• Chen, Zhongfang

Titel

XH/π (X = C, Si) Interactions in Graphene and Silicene: Weak in Strength, Strong in Tuning Band Structures

Ist Teil von

• The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2013-01, Vol.4 (2), p.269-275

Ort / Verlag

United States: American Chemical Society

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The lack of a band gap has greatly hindered the applications of graphene in electronic devices. By means of dispersion-corrected density functional theory computations, we demonstrated that considerable CH/π interactions exist between graphene and its fully (graphane) or patterned partially (C4H) hydrogenated derivatives. Due to the equivalence breaking of two sublattices of graphene, a 90 meV band gap is opened in the graphene/C4H bilayer. The band gap can be further increased to 270 meV by sandwiching graphene between two C4H layers. By taking advantage of the similar SiH/π interactions, a 120 meV band gap also can be opened for silicene. Interestingly, the high carrier mobility of graphene/silicene can be well-preserved. Our theoretical results suggest a rather practical solution for gap opening of graphene and silicene, which would allow them to serve as field effect transistors and other nanodevices.