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Recently, the boom of graphene has aroused great interest in searching for other two-dimensional (2D) compound materials, which possess many intriguing physical and chemical properties. Interestingly, 2D allotropes of differing atomic structures show even more diverse properties. The Bi2Se3 has attracted much attention due to its unique physical properties, while its allotrope has not been investigated. Based on first-principle calculations, here in this work we predict a new phase of Bi2Se3 monolayer with outstanding dynamic and thermal stabilities, named as β-Bi2Se3. Notably, the β-Bi2Se3 monolayer is a semiconductor with a modest direct band gap of 2.40 eV and small effective mass down to 0.52m0, large absorption coefficient of 105 cm–1 in the visible-light spectrum, suitable band edge positions for photocatalysis of water splitting. Moreover, the breaking of mirror symmetry in β-Bi2Se3 along the out-of-plane direction induces vertical dipolar polarization, yielding a remarkable out-of-plane piezoelectric coefficient of 0.58 pm/V. These exceptional physical properties render the layered Bi2Se3 a promising candidate for future high-speed electronics and optoelectronics.
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Keywords:
- semiconductor /
- Bi2Se3 /
- allotrope /
- electronic structures /
- layered material
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图 1 (a) α-Bi2Se3的原子结构; (b)单层β-Bi2Se3结构的俯视图(上图)和侧视图(下图); (c)双层β-Bi2Se3结构的俯视图(上图)和侧视图(下图); (d)经过10 ps第一性原理分子动力学模拟, 得到了300 K时Bi2Se3单层的平衡结构; (e) β-Bi2Se3的声子谱; (f) β-Bi2Se3单层的电子局域函数
Figure 1. (a) Atomic structure of α-Bi2Se3; (b) the top and side views of monolayer β-Bi2Se3; (c) the top and side views of bilayer β-Bi2Se3; (d) snapshots of the equilibrium structures of the β-Bi2Se3 monolayer at 300 K after 10 ps ab initio molecular dynamic simulation; (e) phonon dispersion of monolayer β-Bi2Se3; (f) electron localization function for monolayer β-Bi2Se3.
图 A1 CALYPSO搜索得到的几个较低能量的Bi2Se3单层结构(a)及对应的声子谱(b), 其中Bi2Se3-1, Bi2Se3-2, Bi2Se3-3的形成能分别为–0.15, –0.12, –0.09 eV/atom
Figure A1. Some typical low-energy structures (a) of freestanding Bi2Se3 monolayer predicted by the CALYPSO code and corresponding phonon dispersions (b). The formation energy of Bi2Se3-1, Bi2Se3-2, Bi2Se3-3 are –0.15, –0.12, –0.09 eV/atom respectively.
图 A3 不同堆叠方式的双层β-Bi2Se3 (a)能量最低的β-Bi2Se3双层结构, 将它的能量设定为0 eV; (b)相对能量为0.32 eV;(c)相对能量为0.55 eV
Figure A3. β-Bi2Se3 bilayer with different stacking types and their relative energies: (a) the atomic structure of β-Bi2Se3 bilayer with the lowest energy, and its energy is set to 0 eV; the bilayer structures with relative energies of 0.32 eV (b) and 0.55 eV (c), respectively.
图 5 (a)单层β-Bi2Se3的VBM和CBM对比pH = 7和pH = 0的氧化还原电势; (b)单层β-Bi2Se3的光吸收系数, λ是波长, 虚线中间区域表示可见光区
Figure 5. (a) The location of VBM and CBM relative to vacuum energy of monolayer β-Bi2Se3 at pH = 0 and 7; (b) optical absorption coefficient for monolayer β-Bi2Se3. λ is the wave length, and the area between the red and the purple represents the visible range
表 1 单层、双层和块体β-Bi2Se3相对真空能级的价带顶VBM和导带底CBM, 空穴和电子沿着x和y方向的有效质量(mxh, myh, mxe, mye). 载流子有效质量以自由电子的静止质量m0为单位
Table 1. The VBM and CBM related to vacuum level for monolayer, bilayer and bulk β-Bi2Se3, and the corresponding carrier effective mass. m0 is the electron rest mass.
β-Bi2Se3 VBM/eV CBM/eV mxh mxe myh mye Monolayer –5.82 –3.43 7.88 0.70 5.69 0.66 Bilayer –5.00 –4.24 2.55 0.52 2.36 0.52 Bulk — — 0.65 0.63 0.65 0.67 -
[1] Zhang H, Liu C X, Qi X L, Dai X, Fang Z, Zhang S C 2009 Nat. Phys. 5 438Google Scholar
[2] Kong D, Chen Y, Cha J J, Zhang Q, Analytis J G, Lai K, Liu Z, Hong S S, Koski K J, Mo S K 2011 Nat. Nanotechnol. 6 705Google Scholar
[3] Brom J E, Ke Y, Du R, Won D, Weng X, Andre K, Gagnon J C, Mohney S E, Li Q, Chen K 2012 Appl. Phys. Lett. 100 162110Google Scholar
[4] Alegria L D, Schroer M D, Chatterjee A, Poirier G R, Pretko M, Patel S K, Petta J R 2012 Nano Lett. 12 4711Google Scholar
[5] Alegria L D, Petta J R 2012 Nanotechnology 23 435601Google Scholar
[6] Le P H, Wu K H, Luo C W, Leu J 2013 Thin Solid Films 534 659Google Scholar
[7] Hirahara T, Sakamoto Y, Takeichi Y, Miyazaki H, Kimura S, Matsuda I, Kakizaki A, Hasegawa S 2010 Phys. Rev. B 82 155309Google Scholar
[8] Yu X, He L, Lang M, Jiang W, Xiu F, Liao Z, Wang Y, Kou X, Zhang P, Tang J 2012 Nanotechnology 24 015705Google Scholar
[9] Li Y Y, Wang G, Zhu X G, Liu M H, Ye C, Chen X, Wang Y Y, He K, Wang L L, Ma X C 2010 Adv. Mater. 22 4002Google Scholar
[10] Xia Y, Qian D, Hsieh D, Wray L, Pal A, Lin H, Bansil A, Grauer D, Hor Y S, Cava R J 2009 Nat. Phys. 5 398Google Scholar
[11] Bansal N, Koirala N, Brahlek M, Han M G, Zhu Y, Cao Y, Waugh J, Dessau D S, Oh S 2014 Appl. Phys. Lett. 104 241606Google Scholar
[12] Chen S, Zhao C, Li Y, Huang H, Lu S, Zhang H, Wen S 2014 Opt. Mater. Express 4 587Google Scholar
[13] Sun Y, Cheng H, Gao S, Liu Q, Sun Z, Xiao C, Wu C, Wei S, Xie Y 2012 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 134 20294Google Scholar
[14] Min Y, Park G, Kim B, Giri A, Zeng J, Roh J W, Kim S I, Lee K H, Jeong U 2015 ACS Nano 9 6843Google Scholar
[15] Xu H, Chen G, Jin R, Chen D, Wang Y, Pei J, Zhang Y, Yan C, Qiu Z 2014 Crystengcomm 16 3965Google Scholar
[16] Novoselov K S, Geim A K, Morozov S V, Jiang D, Zhang Y, Dubonos S V, Grigorieva I V, Firsov A A 2004 Science 306 666Google Scholar
[17] Li Y, Xu L, Liu H, Li Y 2014 Chem. Soc. Rev. 43 2572Google Scholar
[18] Li L, Yu Y, Ye G J, Ge Q, Ou X, Wu H, Feng D, Chen X H, Zhang Y 2014 Nat. Nanotechnol. 9 372Google Scholar
[19] Qiao J, Kong X, Hu Z X, Yang F, Ji W 2014 Nat. Commun. 5 4475Google Scholar
[20] Ghosh B, Nahas S, Bhowmick S, Agarwal A 2015 Phys. Rev. B 91 115433Google Scholar
[21] Mogulkoc Y, Modarresi M, Mogulkoc A, Ciftci Y O 2016 Comput. Mater. Sci. 124 23Google Scholar
[22] Kresse G, Furthmüller J 1996 Phys. Rev. B 54 11169Google Scholar
[23] Kresse G, Joubert D 1999 Phys. Rev. B 59 1758Google Scholar
[24] Perdew J P, Burke K, Ernzerhof M 1996 Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 3865Google Scholar
[25] Grimme S 2006 J. Comput. Chem. 27 1787Google Scholar
[26] Grimme S, Antony J, Ehrlich S, Krieg H 2010 J. Chem. Phys. 132 154104Google Scholar
[27] Togo A, Oba F, Tanaka I 2008 Phys. Rev. B 78 134106Google Scholar
[28] Baroni S, De Gironcoli S, Dal Corso A, Giannozzi P 2001 Rev. Mod. Phys. 73 515Google Scholar
[29] Barnett R N, Landman U 1993 Phys. Rev. B 48 2081Google Scholar
[30] Martyna G J, Klein M L, Tuckerman M 1992 J. Chem. Phys. 97 2635Google Scholar
[31] Wang Y, Lv J, Zhu L, Ma Y 2010 Phys. Rev. B 82 094116Google Scholar
[32] Wang Y, Miao M, Lv J, Zhu L, Yin K, Liu H, Ma Y 2012 J. Chem. Phys. 137 224108Google Scholar
[33] Han N, Liu H, Zhou S, Zhao J 2016 J. Phys. Chem. C 120 14699Google Scholar
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[35] Zhang Y, He K, Chang C Z, Song C L, Wang L L, Chen X, Jia J F, Fang Z, Dai X, Shan W Y, Shen S Q, Niu Q, Qi X L, Zhang S C, Ma X C, Xue Q K 2010 Nat. Phys. 6 584Google Scholar
[36] Graziano G, Klimeš J, Fernandez Alonso F, Michaelides A 2012 J. Phys.-Condes. Matter 24 424216Google Scholar
[37] Cai Y, Zhang G, Zhang Y W 2014 Sci. Rep. 4 6677Google Scholar
[38] Chakrapani V, Angus J C, Anderson A B, Wolter S D, Stoner B R, Sumanasekera G U 2007 Science 318 1424Google Scholar
[39] Zhuang H L, Hennig R G 2013 Chem. Mater. 25 3232Google Scholar
[40] Ma Z, Zhuang J, Zhang X, Zhou Z 2018 Front. Phys. 13 138104Google Scholar
[41] Zhang X, Zhang Z, Wu D, Zhang X, Zhao X, Zhou Z 2018 Small Methods 2 1700359Google Scholar
[42] Beal A R, Hughes H P 1979 Solid State Phys. 12 881Google Scholar
[43] Duerloo K N, Ong M T, Reed E J 2012 J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3 2871Google Scholar
[44] King Smith R D, Vanderbilt D 1993 Phys. Rev. B 47 1651Google Scholar
[45] Hangleiter A, Hitzel F, Lahmann S, Rossow U 2003 Appl. Phys. Lett. 83 1169Google Scholar
[46] Shimada K 2006 Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 45 L358Google Scholar
[47] Guo Y, Zhou S, Bai Y, Zhao J 2017 Appl. Phys. Lett. 110 163102Google Scholar
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