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Since the successful preparation of single-layer graphene in 2004, the two-dimensional (2D) materials have received widespread attention. Driven by this research upsurge, many kinds of 2D compound materials with different properties have been discovered one after another, and some of these 2D materials have a variety of allotropes, showing more abundant properties. Our computational studies focus on searching for new stable 2D SiP2 allotropes, and studying their binding energy, phonon dispersions, electronic band structures, strain-dependent bandgap modulation behaviors, piezoelectric properties, etc. In this paper, three novel 2D SiP2 allotrope structures, i.e. α-SiP2, β-SiP2, and γ-SiP2, are found by the random prediction method of crystal structure based on group theory and graph theory (RG2). Their stabilities and electronic properties are investigated by using the first-principles method based on the density functional theory. The results show that the three novel SiP2 structures are stable thermodynamically, dynamically and mechanically. Using the GW calculations, three novel SiP2 structures possess indirect band gaps of 2.62, 2.99 and 3.00 eV, respectively. Their band gaps are feasible to modulate effectively by applying strain. The band gaps of the three novel SiP2 isomers are reduced significantly when subjected to a large strainused, and the three novel SiP2 isomers exhibit indirect-to-direct bandgap transitions when experienced by a certain strain along the x-axis direction. These properties make them potential materials that are suitable for serving as nanoscale photocatalysts. Moreover, three SiP2 isomers have non-centrosymmetric crystal structures, which enable them to exhibit their piezoelectricities. Therefore, we study their piezoelectric properties by combining the Berry phase theory. Our studies show that three novel 2D SiP2 allotropes have good piezoelectric properties. The piezoelectric coefficient of the α-SiP2 isomer and the β-SiP2 isomer are both larger than that of h-BN, and they are comparable to the counterpart of MoS2. These novel structures promise to be used to fabricate nano-electromechanical devices for micro- and nano-scaled electromechanical conversion and electromechanical sensing and controlling.
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Keywords:
- SiP2 allotropes /
- structural prediction /
- electronic properties /
- first principles
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图 1 3种SiP2同素异构体及r-SiP2结构的俯视图(上图)和侧视图(下图) (a) α-SiP2; (b) β-SiP2; (c) γ-SiP2; (d) r-SiP2[14], 红色和绿色分别代表P和Si原子
Figure 1. Top view and side view of three SiP2 allotropes and r-SiP2 structure: (a) α-SiP2; (b) β-SiP2; (c) γ-SiP2; (d) r-SiP2[14]. Red and green balls represent P and Si atoms, respectively.
图 2 3种SiP2异构体声子谱 (a) α-SiP2; (b) β-SiP2; (c) γ-SiP2
Figure 2. Phonon dispersion of three SiP2 isomers: (a) α-SiP2; (b) β-SiP2; (c) γ-SiP2.
图 3 3种SiP2异构体电子能带结构 (a) α-SiP2; (b) β-SiP2; (c) γ-SiP2, 其中红线和黑线分别为GW和HSE的计算结果
Figure 3. Electronic band structures of three SiP2 isomers: (a) α-SiP2; (b) β-SiP2; (c) γ-SiP2. The red and black lines are the calculation results of GW and HSE, respectively.
图 4 3种SiP2异构体的带边位置, 其中虚线为用于水分解的标准氧化还原电势.
Figure 4. Band edge positions of three SiP2 isomers, the dashed line is the standard redox potential for water splitting.
图 5 3种SiP2异构体施加应变后电子带隙的变化, 其中x轴正值表示拉伸应变, 负值表示压缩应变
Figure 5. Changes in the electronic band gaps of three SiP2 isomers after applying straining, where positive values along the x-axis represent tensile strain and negative values represent compressive strain.
图 6 3种SiP2异构体沿x轴方向施加应变后间接-直接带隙转变过程 (a) α-SiP2; (b) β-SiP2; (c) γ-SiP2
Figure 6. Indirect-irect band gap transition processes of three SiP2 isomers after applying strain along the x-axis: (a) α-SiP2; (b) β-SiP2; (c) γ-SiP2.
图 7 3种SiP2异构体施加单轴应变后沿x轴晶胞极化矢量变化
Figure 7. Changes in the polarization vector of the unit cell along the x-axis for three SiP2 isomers after applying uniaxial strain.
表 1 优化后的3种SiP2同素异构体及r-SiP2[16]结构晶格常数、形成能(Eb)和带隙值(Eg)
Table 1. Optimized lattice parameters, binding energy (Eb), and band gap values (Eg) of three SiP2 allotropes and r-SiP2[16] structures.
System A/Å b/Å ${ {E} }_{\text{b} }\text{/}\text{eV}$ ${ {E} }_{\text{g} }^{\text{PBE} }\text{/}\text{eV}$ ${ {E} }_{\text{g} }^{\text{HSE} }\text{/}\text{eV}$ ${ {E} }_{\text{g} }^{\text{GW} }\text{/}\text{eV}$ α-SiP2 6.13 13.89 –5.38 1.44 2.17 2.62 β-SiP2 6.09 13.73 –5.43 1.84 2.61 2.99 γ-SiP2 12.11 13.95 –5.45 1.78 2.55 3.00 r-SiP2 10.00 3.44 –5.47 1.47 2.25 2.63 
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表 2 3种SiP2异构体的弹性常数Cij (N/m)及压电系数eij (10–10 C/m)和dij (pm/V)
Table 2. Calculated elastic coefficients Cij (N/m) and piezoelectric coefficients eij (10–10 C/m) and dij (pm/V) of three SiP2 allotropes.
System $ {C}_{11} $ $ {C}_{22} $ $ {C}_{12} $ $ {e}_{11} $ $ {e}_{12} $ $ {d}_{11} $ $ {d}_{12} $ α-SiP2 69.69 65.74 14.79 –1.05 0.37 –1.71 0.95 β-SiP2 78.36 65.43 19.10 –0.94 –0.38 –1.13 –0.26 γ-SiP2 77.65 59.97 18.04 –0.13 –0.46 –0.01 –0.77 r-SiP2[17] 17.94 121.77 8.66 –1.93 0.17 –11.22 0.93 h-BN[9] 291 291 62 1.38 1.38 0.60 0.60 MoS2[9] 130 130 32 3.64 3.64 3.73 3.73
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[1] Novoselov K S, Geim A K, Morozov S V, Jiang D, Zhang Y, Dubonos S V, Grigorieva I V, Firsov A A 2004 Science 306 666
Google Scholar
[2] Zhang Y B, Tan Y W, Stormer H L, Kim P 2005 Nature 438 201
Google Scholar
[3] Mak K F, Lee C, Hone J, Shan J, Heinz T F 2010 Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 136805
Google Scholar
[4] Topsakal M, Aktuerk E, Ciraci S 2009 Phys. Rev. B 79 115442
Google Scholar
[5] Cahangirov S, Topsakal M, Akturk E, Sahin H, Ciraci S 2009 Phys. Rev. Lett. 102 236804
Google Scholar
[6] Li L, Yu Y, Ye G, Ge Q, Ou X, Wu H, Feng D, Chen, Xian H, Zhang Y B 2014 Nature Nanotechnology 9 372
Google Scholar
[7] Liu H, Neal A T, Zhu Z, Luo Z, Xu X F, Tomanek D, Ye P D 2014 ACS Nano 8 4033
Google Scholar
[8] Li T, Eugenio C, Daniele C, Carlo G, Marco F, Madan D, Alessandro M, Deji A 2015 Nat. Nanotechnol. 10 227
Google Scholar
[9] Duerloo K-A N, Ong M T, Reed E J 2012 J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 3 2871
Google Scholar
[10] Fazel S, Jae R H, Hong S K 2017 J. Mater. Chem. A 5 22146
Google Scholar
[11] Guo J, Liu Y, Ma Y, Zhu E B, Lee S, Lu Z X, Zhao Z P, Xu C H, Lee S J, Wu H, Kovnir K, Huang Y, Duan X F 2018 Adv. Mater. 30 e1705934
Google Scholar
[12] Yang S X, Yang Y H, Wu M H, Hu C G, Shen W F, Gong Y J, Huang L, Jiang C H, Zhang Y Z, Ajayan P M 2018 Adv. Funct. Mater. 28 1707379
Google Scholar
[13] Zhou L Q, Guo Y, Zhao J J 2018 Physica E Low Dimens. Syst. Nanostruct. 95 149
Google Scholar
[14] Li L, Gong P L, Sheng D P, Wang S A, Wang W K, Zhu X D, Shi X Q, Wang F K, Han W, Yang S J, Liu K L, Li H Q, Zhai T Y 2018 Adv. Mater. 30 e1804541
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[15] Wadsten T 1967 Acts Chem. Scand. 21 1374
[16] Matta S K, Zhang C, Jiao Y, O, Mullane A, Du A 2018 Nanoscale 10 6369
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[37] Liu S, Cohen R 2017 Phys. Rev. Lett. 119 207601
Google Scholar
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