• 文献标题:   Multiscale modeling of polycrystalline graphene: A comparison of structure and defect energies of realistic samples from phase field crystal models
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HIRVONEN P, ERVASTI MM, FAN ZY, JALALVAND M, SEYMOUR M, ALLAEI SMV, PROVATAS N, HARJU A, ELDER KR, ALANISSILA T
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Aalto Univ
  • 被引频次:   25
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.94.035414
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

We extend the phase field crystal (PFC) framework to quantitative modeling of polycrystalline graphene. PFC modeling is a powerful multiscale method for finding the ground state configurations of large realistic samples that can be further used to study their mechanical, thermal, or electronic properties. By fitting to quantum-mechanical density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we show that the PFC approach is able to predict realistic formation energies and defect structures of grain boundaries. We provide an in-depth comparison of the formation energies between PFC, DFT, and molecular dynamics (MD) calculations. The DFT and MD calculations are initialized using atomic configurations extracted from PFC ground states. Finally, we use the PFC approach to explicitly construct large realistic polycrystalline samples and characterize their properties using MD relaxation to demonstrate their quality.