• 文献标题:   Electronic properties of graphene with single vacancy and Stone-Wales defects
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   ZAMINPAYMA E, RAZAVI ME, NAYEBI P
  • 作者关键词:   density functional, tightbinding dftb, graphene, defect, electronic propertie
  • 出版物名称:   APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
  • ISSN:   0169-4332 EI 1873-5584
  • 通讯作者地址:   Islamic Azad Univ
  • 被引频次:   20
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.04.065
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

The first principles calculations have been performed based on self-consistent charge density functional tight-binding in order to examine the electronic properties of graphene with single vacancy (SV) and Stone-Wales (SW) defects. We have optimized structures of pristine graphene and graphene with SV and SW defects. The bond lengths, current-voltage curve and transmission probability have been calculated. We found that the bond length for relaxed graphene is 1.43 angstrom while for graphene with SV and SW defects the bond lengths are 1.41 angstrom and 1.33 angstrom, respectively. For the SV defect, the arrangement of atoms with three nearest neighbors indicates sp(2) bonding. While for SW defect, the arrangement of atoms suggests nearly sp bonding. From the current-voltage curve for graphene with defects we have determined that the behavior of the I-V curves is nonlinear. It is also found that the SV and SW defects cause to decrease the current compared to the pristine graphene case. Furthermore, the single vacancy defect reduces the current more than the Stone-Wales defect. Moreover, we observed that by increasing the voltage from zero to 1 V new peaks near Fermi level in the transmission probability curves have been created. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.