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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
Prediction of staggered stacking 2D BeP semiconductor with unique anisotropic electronic properties
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By comprehensive structure design and first-principles calculations, we report a novel two-dimensional (2D) BeP nanomaterial with exotic structural and properties. This BeP 2D material is formed by a couple honeycomb sheets by slab staggered stacking and strong interlayer bondings. It behaves as a natural 2D semiconductor with several notable properties: a modest bandgap (~1.34 eV), high room-temperature electron mobility (~104 cm2 V-1 s-1) and high visible-light absorption coefficient (~105 cm-1); Moreover, due to the unique stacking topology, BeP may display distinctive direction-dependent electric transport by the anisotropic polarity of electron and hole mobilities, that is, it exhibits n-type (electron mobility > hole mobility) along the armchair direction while acts as p -type (hole mobility > electron mobility) in the zigzag direction, thus promising for applications in nanoelectronics. The BeP has good dynamic and thermal stabilities and is also the lowest-energy structure of 2D space indicated by particle swarm search, implying the high feasibility of experimental synthesis.
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