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Xiaohui Deng1, Mingsu Si, Jiayu Dai
1Department of Physics and Electronic Information Science, Hengyang Normal University, Hengyang 421008, People's Republic of China. xiaohuideng@hynu.cn
Abstract:
The physical mechanism for the electronic structures tuning and band gap opening of α-graphyne are investigated from the first principles calculations. The pathway of using B and N atoms to codope into graphyne is proposed. After codoping, B atom plays a role of hole doping and N atom acts as electron doping. In codoped graphyne, the Fermi energy returns around the Dirac point and a gap is introduced. Interestingly, the opened gaps oscillate periodically with the increasing distances between B and N atoms with the gap from 0.07 eV to 0.50 eV, which is caused by the breaking sublattice symmetry.
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