12-15 July 2011
Saint George Hotel
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

Modification of the bandoffset in boronitrene

13 Jul 2011, 12:00
15m
Parthenon

Parthenon

Oral Presentation Track A - Condensed Matter Physics and Material Science CMPMS1

Speaker

Mr Kingsley Obodo (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

Description

We carried out ab initio self-consistent calculations to study the modification of the band offsets by polar layers. We considered a double line of C in a monolayer of hexagonal BN, also known as Boronitrene. This effectively introduces a line of dipoles at the interface. We considered BN/C zigzag and armchair configurations. The BN/C zigzag-short is found to be energetically most stable and with the smallest (1.51eV). We show that a two dimensional diode can be constructed from this structure, with changes to the electronic and optical properties of the host system.

Level (Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD, other)? PhD
Consider for a student <br> &nbsp; award (Yes / No)? Yes
Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)? No

Primary author

Mr Kingsley Obodo (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

Co-authors

Prof. Nithaya Chetty (University of Pretoria, South Africa) Mr Richard C. Andrew (University of Pretoria, South Africa)

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