• 文献标题:   Hybrid graphene-BC2N monolayers and nanoribbons with extended line defects: An ab initio study
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GUERRA T, AZEVEDO S, MACHADO M
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  • 出版物名称:   SOLID STATE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   0038-1098 EI 1879-2766
  • 通讯作者地址:   Cidade Univ
  • 被引频次:   2
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.ssc.2016.12.005
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Opening a bandgap in graphene is probably one of the most important and urgent topics in the graphene research currently, since most of the proposed applications for graphene in nanoelectronic devices require the ability to adjust its bandgap. In this work we perform first-principles calculations to investigate the alterations at the structural, energetic, electronic and magnetic properties of hybrid graphene-BC2N monolayers (GBMLs) and zigzag graphene-BC2N nanoribbons (ZGBNRs) with different types of extended line defects (ELDs) at the grain boundary. Different reconstruction processes are observed forming different types of ELDs depending on the nature of the atoms into the grain boundary as well as the structures type, arrangement, position/size of domains, and inserted atoms. The inclusion of these ELDs creates edge type effects in the ELD at GBNMLs, inducing spin polarization and localization of states at the Fermi level. GBNMLs show a wide range of electronic structures going from semimetallic to semiconducting and metallic, which can have magnetic ground states with ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic. ZGBNRs are always metallic with ferromagnetic coupling between carbon atoms at the structures edges.