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Probe Type II Band Alignment in One-Dimensional Van Der Waals Heterostructures Using First-Principles Calculations
Published on: October 12, 2019
Testing several recent van der Waals density functionals for layered structures
1COMP Centre of Excellence, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University School of Science, P.O. Box 11100, 00076 Aalto, Finland.
Abstract:
Six recently developed exchange functionals for pairing with two different versions of van der Waals density functionals (vdW-DF) are tested for weakly bonded solids. The test, using 26 layered weakly bonded compounds, benchmarks the lattice constants against experimental data and the interlayer binding energies against reference data from the random-phase approximation (RPA). The investigated functionals tend to give interlayer binding energies higher than the RPA benchmark, and the overall performance for lattice constants is good. The exchange functionals optB86b and cx13 paired with the original vdW-DF and the B86R functional paired with vdW-DF2 are found to give particularly good results for equilibrium geometries.
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