中国物理B ›› 2019, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (8): 86104-086104.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/28/8/086104

• CONDENSED MATTER: STRUCTURAL, MECHANICAL, AND THERMAL PROPERTIES • 上一篇    下一篇

Electronic and optical properties of GaN-MoS2 heterostructure from first-principles calculations

Dahua Ren(任达华), Xingyi Tan(谭兴毅), Teng Zhang(张腾), Yuan Zhang(张源)   

  1. School of Information Engineering, Hubei Minzu University, Enshi 445000, China
  • 收稿日期:2019-04-15 修回日期:2019-05-31 出版日期:2019-08-05 发布日期:2019-08-05
  • 通讯作者: Dahua Ren E-mail:rdh_perfect@163.com
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11864011), the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2018CFB390), and the Doctoral Fund Project of Hubei Minzu University, China (Grant No. MY2017B015).

Electronic and optical properties of GaN-MoS2 heterostructure from first-principles calculations

Dahua Ren(任达华), Xingyi Tan(谭兴毅), Teng Zhang(张腾), Yuan Zhang(张源)   

  1. School of Information Engineering, Hubei Minzu University, Enshi 445000, China
  • Received:2019-04-15 Revised:2019-05-31 Online:2019-08-05 Published:2019-08-05
  • Contact: Dahua Ren E-mail:rdh_perfect@163.com
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11864011), the Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2018CFB390), and the Doctoral Fund Project of Hubei Minzu University, China (Grant No. MY2017B015).

摘要: Heterostructures (HSs) have attracted significant attention because of their interlayer van der Waals interactions. The electronic structures and optical properties of stacked GaN-MoS2 HSs under strain have been explored in this work using density functional theory. The results indicate that the direct band gap (1.95 eV) of the GaN-MoS2 HS is lower than the individual band gaps of both the GaN layer (3.48 eV) and the MoS2 layer (2.03 eV) based on HSE06 hybrid functional calculations. Specifically, the GaN-MoS2 HS is a typical type-Ⅱ band HS semiconductor that provides an effective approach to enhance the charge separation efficiency for improved photocatalytic degradation activity and water splitting efficiency. Under tensile or compressive strain, the direct band gap of the GaN-MoS2 HS undergoes redshifts. Additionally, the GaN-MoS2 HS maintains its direct band gap semiconductor behavior even when the tensile or compressive strain reaches 5% or -5%. Therefore, the results reported above can be used to expand the application of GaN-MoS2 HSs to photovoltaic cells and photocatalysts.

关键词: GaN-MoS2 heterostructure, electronic structures, optical properties, first-principles calculations

Abstract: Heterostructures (HSs) have attracted significant attention because of their interlayer van der Waals interactions. The electronic structures and optical properties of stacked GaN-MoS2 HSs under strain have been explored in this work using density functional theory. The results indicate that the direct band gap (1.95 eV) of the GaN-MoS2 HS is lower than the individual band gaps of both the GaN layer (3.48 eV) and the MoS2 layer (2.03 eV) based on HSE06 hybrid functional calculations. Specifically, the GaN-MoS2 HS is a typical type-Ⅱ band HS semiconductor that provides an effective approach to enhance the charge separation efficiency for improved photocatalytic degradation activity and water splitting efficiency. Under tensile or compressive strain, the direct band gap of the GaN-MoS2 HS undergoes redshifts. Additionally, the GaN-MoS2 HS maintains its direct band gap semiconductor behavior even when the tensile or compressive strain reaches 5% or -5%. Therefore, the results reported above can be used to expand the application of GaN-MoS2 HSs to photovoltaic cells and photocatalysts.

Key words: GaN-MoS2 heterostructure, electronic structures, optical properties, first-principles calculations

中图分类号:  (III-V and II-VI semiconductors)

  • 61.72.uj
71.15.Mb (Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections) 74.78.Fk (Multilayers, superlattices, heterostructures)