Aluminene as highly hole‐doped graphene
Monolayer structures made up of purely one kind of atom are fascinating. Many kinds of honeycomb systems including carbon, silicon, germanium, tin, phosphorus and arsenic have been shown to be stable. However, so far the structures are restricted to group-IV and V elements. In this work we systemati...
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| author | C Kamal Aparna Chakrabarti Motohiko Ezawa |
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| description | Monolayer structures made up of purely one kind of atom are fascinating. Many kinds of honeycomb systems including carbon, silicon, germanium, tin, phosphorus and arsenic have been shown to be stable. However, so far the structures are restricted to group-IV and V elements. In this work we systematically investigate the stability of monolayer structures made up of aluminium, in four different geometric configurations (planar, buckled, puckered and triangular), by employing density functional theory‐based electronic structure calculation. Our results on cohesive energy and phonon dispersion predict that only the planar honeycomb structure made up of aluminium is stable. We call it ‘aluminene’ according to the standard naming convention. It is a metal. Results of electronic band structure suggest that it may be regarded as a highly hole-doped graphene. We also present the tight-binding model and the Dirac theory to discuss the electronic properties of aluminene. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-50b22906803d4d4694e81033225a7d712023-08-08T14:19:35ZengIOP PublishingNew Journal of Physics1367-26302015-01-0117808301410.1088/1367-2630/17/8/083014Aluminene as highly hole‐doped grapheneC Kamal0Aparna Chakrabarti1Motohiko Ezawa2Indus Synchrotrons Utilization Division, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology , Indore 452013, India; Authors to whom any correspondence should be addressed.Indus Synchrotrons Utilization Division, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology , Indore 452013, IndiaDepartment of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo , Hongo 7-3-1, 113-8656, Japan; Authors to whom any correspondence should be addressed.Monolayer structures made up of purely one kind of atom are fascinating. Many kinds of honeycomb systems including carbon, silicon, germanium, tin, phosphorus and arsenic have been shown to be stable. However, so far the structures are restricted to group-IV and V elements. In this work we systematically investigate the stability of monolayer structures made up of aluminium, in four different geometric configurations (planar, buckled, puckered and triangular), by employing density functional theory‐based electronic structure calculation. Our results on cohesive energy and phonon dispersion predict that only the planar honeycomb structure made up of aluminium is stable. We call it ‘aluminene’ according to the standard naming convention. It is a metal. Results of electronic band structure suggest that it may be regarded as a highly hole-doped graphene. We also present the tight-binding model and the Dirac theory to discuss the electronic properties of aluminene.https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/8/083014aluminenetwo-dimensional materialselectronic structures |
| spellingShingle | C Kamal Aparna Chakrabarti Motohiko Ezawa Aluminene as highly hole‐doped graphene New Journal of Physics aluminene two-dimensional materials electronic structures |
| title | Aluminene as highly hole‐doped graphene |
| title_full | Aluminene as highly hole‐doped graphene |
| title_fullStr | Aluminene as highly hole‐doped graphene |
| title_full_unstemmed | Aluminene as highly hole‐doped graphene |
| title_short | Aluminene as highly hole‐doped graphene |
| title_sort | aluminene as highly hole doped graphene |
| topic | aluminene two-dimensional materials electronic structures |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/17/8/083014 |
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