Fig. 1.
(Color online) Structure of (a) bulk AuSe with 2 × 2 × 1 supercell, (b) two dimensional AuSe in top view and (c) side view. (d) Cleavage energy of AuSe monolayer and black phorphous.
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Pengxiang Bai, Shiying Guo, Shengli Zhang, Hengze Qu, Wenhan Zhou, Haibo Zeng. Electronic band structures and optical properties of atomically thin AuSe: first-principle calculations[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2019, 40(6): 062004. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/6/062004
P X Bai, S Y Guo, S L Zhang, H Z Qu, W H Zhou, H B Zeng, Electronic band structures and optical properties of atomically thin AuSe: first-principle calculations[J]. J. Semicond., 2019, 40(6): 062004. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/6/062004.
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Electronic band structures and optical properties of atomically thin AuSe: first-principle calculations
doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/40/6/062004
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Abstract
As a large family of 2D materials, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have stimulated numerous works owing to their attractive properties. The replacement of constituent elements could promote the discovery and fabrication of new nano-film in this family. Using precious metals, such as platinum and palladium, to serve as transition metals combined with chalcogen is a new approach to explore novel TMDs. Also, the proportion between transition metal and chalcogen atoms is found not only to exist in conventional form of 1 : 2. Herein, we reported a comprehensive study of a new 2D precious metal selenide, namely AuSe monolayer. Based on density functional theory, our result indicated that AuSe monolayer is a semiconductor with indirect band-gap of 2.0 eV, which possesses superior dynamic stability and thermodynamic stability with cohesive energy up to –7.87 eV/atom. Moreover, it has been confirmed that ionic bonding predominates in Au–Se bonds and absorption peaks in all directions distribute in the deep ultraviolet region. In addition, both vibration modes dominating marked Raman peaks are parallel to the 2D plane.-
Keywords:
- AuSe monolayer,
- DFT calculation,
- 2D semiconductor
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