Dissemin is shutting down on January 1st, 2025

Published in

SoutheastCon 2015

DOI: 10.1109/secon.2015.7132873

Links

Tools

Export citation

Search in Google Scholar

Bandgap changes in armchair silicene nanoribbons perforated with periodic nanoholes

Proceedings article published in 2015 by Sadegh Mehdi Aghaei ORCID, Irene Calizo
This paper is available in a repository.
This paper is available in a repository.

Full text: Download

Green circle
Preprint: archiving allowed
Green circle
Postprint: archiving allowed
Red circle
Published version: archiving forbidden
Data provided by SHERPA/RoMEO

Abstract

In this study, electronic properties of armchair silicene nanoribbon perforated with periodic nanoholes are studied by first-principle calculations based on density functional theory. It has been demonstrated that pristine armchair silicene nanoribbons can be categorized into three branches with width W= 3P-1, 3P, and 3P+1, where P is a positive integer. Their energy gaps decrease as a function of increasing nanoribbon width and satisfy EG (3P-1) <; EG (3P) <; EG (3P+1). The bandgaps of armchair silicene nanoribbons perforated with periodic nanoholes show an oscillatory behavior and become smaller or larger than that of pristine armchair silicene nanoribbon depending on the nanoribbon's width and repeat periodicity of nanoholes. Results indicate that the different nanoribbons width and edge shape between two adjacent nanoholes and between nanoholes and nanoribbons in a small repeat periodicity will result in different quantum confinement effects. It has been also shown that the bandgap of armchair silicene nanoribbon are closely dependent on the position of nanoholes relative to edges of the nanoribbons.