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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 26, Issue 39, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/26/39/395003
Keywords
first-principles calculations; silicene; band structure
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11274143, 60471042, 11304121]
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Opening a sizable band gap in the zero-gap silicene without lowering the carrier mobility is a key issue for its application in nanoelectronics. Based on first-principles calculations, we find that the interaction energies are in the range of -0.09-0.3 eV per Si atom, indicating a weak interaction between silicene and ZnS monolayer and the AB(Zn) stacking is the most stable pattern. The band gap of silicene can be effectively tuned ranging from 0.025 to 1.05 eV in silicene and ZnS heterobilayer (Si/ZnS HBL). An unexpected indirect-direct band gap crossover is also observed in HBLs, dependent on the stacking pattern, interlayer spacing and external strain effects on silicene. Interestingly, the characteristics of Dirac cone with a nearly linear band dispersion relation of silicene can be preserved in the AB(S) pattern which is a metastable state, accompanied by a small electron effective mass and thus the carrier mobility is expected not to degrade much. These provide a possible way to design effective FETs out of silicene on a ZnS monolayer.
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