Ordered Semiconducting Nitrogen-Graphene Alloys

Details Ordered Semiconducting Nitrogen-Graphene Alloys Ordered Semiconducting Nitrogen-Graphene Alloys

2011-05-18

arxiv.org/abs/1105.3540v2

Phys. Rev. X 2, 011003 (2012)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevX.2.011003

The interaction between substitutional nitrogen atoms in graphene is studied by performing first principles calculations. The nearest neighbor interaction between nitrogen dopants is highly repulsive because of the strong electrostatic repulsion between nitrogen atoms, which prevents the full phase separation in nitrogen doped graphene. Interestingly, there are two relatively stable nitrogen-nitrogen pairs due to the anisotropy charge redistribution induced by nitrogen doping. We reveal two stable semiconducting ordered N doped graphene structures C3N and C12N through the cluster expansion technique and particle swarm optimization method. In particular, C12N has a direct band gap of 0.98 eV. The heterojunctions between C12N and graphene nanoribbons might be promising organic solar cells.

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