First principles study on modulating electronic and optical properties with h-BN intercalation in AlN/MoS2 heterostructure
- 12 October 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nanotechnology
- Vol. 33 (3), 035708
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/ac2f27
Abstract
The van der Waals(vdW) heterostructures formed by stacking layered two-dimensional materials can improve the performance of materials and provide more applications. In our paper, six configurations of AlN/MoS2 vdW heterostructures were constructed, the most stable structure was obtained by calculating the binding energy. On this basis, the effect of external vertical strain on AlN/MoS2 heterostructure was analyzed, the calculated results show that the optimal interlayer distance was 3.593Å and the band structure was modulated. Then the h-BN intercalation was inserted into the AlN/MoS2 heterostructure, by fixing the distance between h-BN and AlN or MoS2, two kinds of models were obtained. Furthermore, the electronic properties of AlN/MoS2 heterostructure can be regulated by adding h-BN intercalation layer and adjusting its position. Finally, the optical properties show that the absorption coefficient of AlN/MoS2 heterostructure exhibits enhancement characteristic compared with that of the individual monolayers. Meantime, compared with AlN/MoS2, the AlN/h-BN/MoS2 shows a redshift effect and the light absorption peak intensity increased, which indicated that h-BN intercalation layer can be used to regulate the electronic and optical properties of AlN/MoS2 heterostructure.Keywords
Funding Information
- Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (1708085QF144)
- University Natural Science Research Project of Anhui Province (KJ2019A0014)
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61874001)
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