Stability, defect and electronic properties of graphane-like carbon-halogen compounds
We perform first-principles total energy calculations to investigate the stabilities and the electronic structures of graphane-like structures of carbon-halogen compounds, where the hydrogen atoms in the graphane are substituted by halogen atoms. Three halogen elements, fluorine （F）, chlorine （C1） a...
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| Published in | Chinese physics B Vol. 20; no. 11; pp. 512 - 518 |
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| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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IOP Publishing
01.11.2011
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| ISSN | 1674-1056 2058-3834 |
| DOI | 10.1088/1674-1056/20/11/118101 |
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| Summary: | We perform first-principles total energy calculations to investigate the stabilities and the electronic structures of graphane-like structures of carbon-halogen compounds, where the hydrogen atoms in the graphane are substituted by halogen atoms. Three halogen elements, fluorine （F）, chlorine （C1） and bromine （Br）, are considered, and the graphane-like structures are named as CF, CC1 and CBr, respectively. It is found that for the single-atom adsorption, only the F adatom can be chemically adsorbed on the graphene. However, the stable graphane-like structures of CF, CC1 and CBr can form due to the interaction between the halogen atoms. The carbon atoms in the stable CF, CC1 and CBr compounds are in the sp3 hybridization, forming a hexagonal network similar to the graphane. The electronic band calculations show that CF and CC1 are semiconductors with band gaps of 3.28 eV and 1.66 eV, respectively, while CBr is a metal. Moreover, the molecular dynamics simulation is employed to clarify the stabilities of CF and CC1. Those two compounds are stable at room temperature. A high temperature （：〉 1200 K） is needed to damage CF, while CC1 is destroyed at 700 K. Furthermore, the effects of a vacancy on the structure and the electronic property of CF are discussed. |
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| Bibliography: | graphene; graphane; electronic properties;first-principles Lu Di,Yang Yu-Rong,Xiao Yang,Zhang Xiao-Yu（College of Science, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China） 11-5639/O4 We perform first-principles total energy calculations to investigate the stabilities and the electronic structures of graphane-like structures of carbon-halogen compounds, where the hydrogen atoms in the graphane are substituted by halogen atoms. Three halogen elements, fluorine （F）, chlorine （C1） and bromine （Br）, are considered, and the graphane-like structures are named as CF, CC1 and CBr, respectively. It is found that for the single-atom adsorption, only the F adatom can be chemically adsorbed on the graphene. However, the stable graphane-like structures of CF, CC1 and CBr can form due to the interaction between the halogen atoms. The carbon atoms in the stable CF, CC1 and CBr compounds are in the sp3 hybridization, forming a hexagonal network similar to the graphane. The electronic band calculations show that CF and CC1 are semiconductors with band gaps of 3.28 eV and 1.66 eV, respectively, while CBr is a metal. Moreover, the molecular dynamics simulation is employed to clarify the stabilities of CF and CC1. Those two compounds are stable at room temperature. A high temperature （：〉 1200 K） is needed to damage CF, while CC1 is destroyed at 700 K. Furthermore, the effects of a vacancy on the structure and the electronic property of CF are discussed. ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 |
| ISSN: | 1674-1056 2058-3834 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1674-1056/20/11/118101 |