Journal
NANOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 31, Issue 29, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ab884e
Keywords
MoS2/BC3; /C3N and /C3N4 van der Waals heterostructures; electronic properties; strain engineering; electric field; functionalization; first-principles calculations
Funding
- National Research Foundation of Korea(NRF) - Korea government(MSIT) [NRF-2017R1A2B2011989]
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In this paper, the effect of BC3, C3N and C3N4BC(3) and MoS2/C(3)N4 heterostructures are direct semiconductors with band gaps of 0.4 and 1.74 eV, respectively, while MoS2/C3N is a metal. Furthermore, the influence of strain and electric field on the electronic structure of these van der Waals heterostructures is investigated. The MoS2/BC3 heterostructure, for strains larger than -4%, transforms it into a metal where the metallic character is maintained for strains larger than -6%. The band gap decreases with increasing strain to 0.35 eV (at +2%), while for strain (>+6%) a direct-indirect band gap transition is predicted to occur. For the MoS2/C3N heterostructure, the metallic character persists for all strains considered. On applying an electric field, the electronic properties of MoS2/C3N4 are modified and its band gap decreases as the electric field increases. Interestingly, the band gap reaches 30 meV at +0.8 V/angstrom, and with increase above +0.8 V/angstrom, a semiconductor-to-metal transition occurs. Furthermore, we investigated effects of semi- and full-hydrogenation of MoS2/C3N and we found that it leads to a metallic and semiconducting character, respectively.
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