• 文献标题:   Evaluation of Electronic Coupling in Solids from Ab Initio Periodic Boundary Condition Calculations: The Case of Pentacene Crystal and Bilayer Graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BIANCARDI A, CARICATO M
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  • 出版物名称:   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C
  • ISSN:   1932-7447 EI 1932-7455
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Kansas
  • 被引频次:   5
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b06011
  • 出版年:   2016

▎ 摘  要

Understanding the modulation of the electronic coupling in molecular crystals, and two-dimensional materials is crucial from a fundamental point of view as well as for the development of organic electronics. In this work, we present a first-principles quantum-mechanical method for the calculation of the electronic coupling (or transfer integrals) between fragments or layers, using density functional theory with periodic boundary conditions (DFT-PBC) within the Gamma-point approximation. This method is applied to two periodic systems: crystalline pentacene and a bilayer graphene film. For the former system, we find that the inclusion of the solid environment affects the interfragment electronic couplings) with changes of the order of 10%. However, we confirm the qualitative trends obtained with the "isolated molecular dimer" model. For the graphene film, we show how the interlayer coupling changes with the relative position of two pi-stacked layers. Interestingly, we find that particle-particle coupling is large even for configurations that are not perfectly stacked.