• 文献标题:   First-principles studies for the stability of a graphene-like boron layer on CrB2(0001) and MoB2(0001)
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   QIN N, LIU SY, LI Z, ZHAO H, WANG SW
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICSCONDENSED MATTER
  • ISSN:   0953-8984 EI 1361-648X
  • 通讯作者地址:   Tianjin Normal Univ
  • 被引频次:   18
  • DOI:   10.1088/0953-8984/23/22/225501
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

With extensive first-principles density-functional-theory calculations, we investigate the stability and the atomic and electronic structures of the CrB2(0001) and MoB2(0001) surfaces, each with two different terminations. It is found that the boron-terminated surface is energetically more favorable over the wide range of thermodynamically allowed chemical potentials than the metal-terminated surface for both CrB2(0001) and MoB2(0001), suggesting a stable layer of graphene-like boron on the surfaces. Our results also show the similarities and the differences in relaxation and in bonding characteristics between the boron-terminated and metal-terminated surfaces.