时间: 2014年4月23日 星期三 下午4:00
地点: yl6809永利官方版(望江校区)物理馆1楼103室
报告人: Dr. Han, Xiaoyu ; Dr. Morgan Stewart, Henry (英国伦敦大学学院)
报告题目:Some methods for opening graphene band gap
报告内容: Since the discovery of graphene, many efforts have ben made to tailor 
this 2D material of a Dirac-cone band gap structure without disturbing the high 
electron mobility. However, such efforts are still not conclusive. Here we 
propose two approaches on opening band gap by substrates and defects. The first 
propose is tuning the pristine graphene using single crystal diamond, which have 
more advantages than SiO2/Si base. The weakly van der Waals interaction 
dominated between the graphene and diamond surfaces, which highly reserved the 
graphene electron mobility. Compared with Diamond (111), diamond (100) have 
stronger electron overlapping with the graphene by graphene donated partly pi 
electron to the substrates. Consequently, the band gap reaches to 0.20 eV. 
Meanwhile, H termination of the surfaces plays a crucial role. Our simulation 
results give guides and prediction with our experimental work. The FET hall 
mobility is 222 cm2/Vc for G@H_D(100), while 137 cm2/Vs for G@H_D(111). Our 
2K-RoomT electronic properties test also meets our simulation results, especial 
in low temperature range. The second one is presented a systematic study of 
nitrogen doping on defective graphene based on Density Functional Theory. Up to 
6 adjacent carbon vacancies (Vc), nitrogen dopants (Nc) and defect complexes 
(nVc+mNc) were considered. In both pure vacancy defects and vacancy-doping 
complex scenarios, the geometries undergo a Jahn-Teller like distortion driven 
by the unterminated dangling bonds on carbon atoms. The pure nitrogen 
substitution defects have the lowest formation energy, particularly with one 
nitrogen substitution. When a vacancy defects exists, the nitrogen atoms prefer 
to substitute the positions around the vacancy. These defect complexes also have 
significant effect on its own electronic properties. In the 2Vc+4Nc defect 
configuration, the band gap can be opened to 0.25 eV. The Fermi velocity of this 
defective graphene is 0.48E-6 m/s, comparable to the pristine graphene. Such 
insight is very important for the design of electronic devices, grapheme-based 
catalysts and energy storage materials.
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