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Stanene possesses excellent properties, including an extremely high charge carrier density, massless Dirac fermions, and high thermal conductivity. Moreover, it exhibits band inversion phenomena, being made a candidate for a topological insulator. Topological insulators can generate dissipationless electric currents under certain conditions, showing great application potentials. However, the presence of a Dirac cone in the band structure of stanene at the high-symmetry point K in the Brillouin zone, resulting in a zero band gap, significantly limits its applications in the semiconductor field. This study adopts the method of doping B/N elements in stanene and applying an electric field perpendicular to the stanene to open the band gap at the K point. The effects of doping and the intensity of the applied electric field on the structural and electronic properties of stanene are investigated. The results reveal that both doping B elements and applying a vertical electric field can open the band gap at the K point while preserving the topological properties of stanene. Additionally, there is a positive correlation between the applied vertical electric field intensity and the band gap at the K point. Simultaneously doping B elements and applying a vertical electric field can increase the band gap at the K point, reaching 0.092 eV when the electric field intensity is 0.5 V/Å. After doping N elements, stanene is transformed into an indirect band gap semiconductor with a band gap of 0.183 eV. Applying a vertical electric field cannot change the structure of N-doped stanene, and the intensity of the applied vertical electric field is negatively correlated with the band gap at the K point. When the electric field intensity is 0.5 V/Å, the band gap at the K point decreases to 0.153 eV.
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Keywords:
- stanene /
- topological insulator /
- perpendicular electric field /
- doping
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图 1 锡烯优化后的结构图, 上方是锡烯结构主视图, 下方是锡烯结构的侧视图, 其中θ为锡烯键角, a和b为锡烯晶格常数, l为Sn—Sn键长, E为外加电场, d为锡烯的屈曲
Figure 1. Optimized structure of stanene and doped stanene. The top part is the top view of the structure of stanene, the bottom part is side view of the structure of stanene, where θ represents the bond angle of stanene, a and b represent the lattice constants of stanene, l represents the Sn—Sn bond length, E represents electric field, d represents the buckling of stanene.
图 2 (a) 锡烯的能带图, 费米能级设在0 eV处; (b) 无应力锡烯的声子谱, 从下到上依次为ZA, TA, LA, ZO, TO和 LO
Figure 2. (a) Band structure of stanene, the Fermi level is set to zero; (b) phonon spectrum of stress-free stanene, which are ZA (acoustic out-of-plane mode), TA (acoustic in-plane transverse mode), LA (acoustic in-plane longitudinal mode), ZO (optical out-of-plane mode), TO (optical in-plane transverse mode), LO (optical in-plane longitudinal mode), respectively from bottom to top.
图 3 (a) 电场强度为0—0.5 V/Å时锡烯晶格常数、Sn—Sn键长和屈曲的变化; (b) 电场强度为0.5 V/Å时锡烯的能带图; (c) 电场强度为0—0.5 V/Å时锡烯在K点处的带隙, 费米能级设在0 eV处
Figure 3. (a) The change of lattice constant, Sn—Sn bond length, and buckling of stanene under the electric field ranging from 0 to 0.5 V/Å; (b) the band gap of stanene under the electric field of 0.5 V/Å; (c) the band gap at the K point of stanene under the electric field ranging from 0 to 0.5 V/Å. The Fermi level is set to zero.
图 4 (a) B掺杂锡烯优化后的结构图, 上方是B掺杂锡烯结构主视图, 下方是B掺杂锡烯结构的侧视图; (b) B掺杂锡烯的差分电荷密度图; (c) B掺杂锡烯的能带图; (d) B掺杂锡烯的声子色散图
Figure 4. (a) Optimized structure of B-doped stanene, the top part is the top view of the structure of B-doped stanene, the bottom part is side view of the structure of B-doped stanene; (b) electron density difference of B-doped stanene; (c) energy band of B-doped stanene; (d) phonon spectrum of stress-free B-doped stanene.
图 5 (a) N掺杂锡烯优化后的结构图, 上方是N掺杂锡烯结构主视图, 下方是N掺杂锡烯结构的侧视图; (b) N掺杂锡烯的差分电荷密度图; (c) N掺杂锡烯的能带图; (d) N掺杂锡烯的声子色散图
Figure 5. (a) Optimized structure of N-doped stanene, the top part is the top view of the structure of N-doped stanene, the bottom part is side view of the structure of N-doped stanene; (b) electron density difference of N-doped stanene; (c) energy band of N-doped stanene; (d) phonon spectrum of stress-free N-doped stanene.
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[1] Luo B, Wang B, Li X L, Jia Y Y, Liang M H, Zhi L J 2012 Adv. Mater. 24 3538
Google Scholar
[2] Cahangirov S, Topsakal M, Akturk E, Sahin H, Ciraci S 2009 Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 236804
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[3] Roome N J, Carey J D 2014 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 6 7743
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Google Scholar
[5] Xu Y, Yan B H, Zhang H J, Wang J, Xu G, Tang P Z, Duan W H, Zhang S C 2013 Phys. Rev. Lett. 111 136804
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[9] Deng J J, Xia B Y, Ma X C, Chen H Q, Shan H, Zhai X F, Li B, Zhao A D, Xu Y, Duan W H, Zhang S C, Wang B, Hou J G 2018 Nat. Mater. 17 1081
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Qian D, Jia J F 2016 Chin. Sci. Bul. 61 3252
[12] Wu S C, Shan G, Yan B H 2014 Phys. Rev. Lett. 113 256401
Google Scholar
[13] Qi X L, Zhang S C 2011 Rev. Mod. Phys. 83 1057
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