• 文献标题:   Ab initio studies of hydrogen adatoms on bilayer graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   MAPASHA RE, UKPONG AM, CHETTY N
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW B
  • ISSN:   2469-9950 EI 2469-9969
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Pretoria
  • 被引频次:   53
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevB.85.205402
  • 出版年:   2012

▎ 摘  要

We present a comparative density functional study of the adsorption of hydrogen on bilayer graphene. Six different exchange-correlation functionals are employed to explore the possible configurations of hydrogen adsorption at 50% coverage. Using the four variants of the nonlocal van der Waals density functional, we identify three distinct competing configurations that retain the coupled bilayer structure at 0 K. One of the configurations undergoes a spontaneous transformation from hexagonal to tetrahedral structure, under hydrogenation, with heat of formation ranging between -0.03 eV (vdW-DF) and -0.37 eV (vdW-DFC09(x)). This configuration has a finite band gap of around 3 eV, whereas all other competing configurations are either semimetallic or metallic. We also find two unique low-energy competing configurations of decoupled bilayer graphene, and therefore suggest the possibility of graphene exfoliation by hydrogen intercalation.