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Because the single-layer CrI3 is a half semiconductor with indirect band gap and magnetic anisotropy, it has received much attention in the spintronic, magneto-electronic and magnetic storage applications. However, the knowledge of the dependence of carrier mobility and optical property on strain is still rather limited. The uniaxial and biaxial strain dependence of electronic, transport, optical and magnetic properties of single-layer CrI3 are systematically investigated by using first-principles calculations, and the results are compared with experimental results. The electronic structures under different strains are first calculated by using the accurate HSE06 functional, then the carrier mobility is estimated by the deformation potential theory and the dielectric function is obtained to estimate the optical absorption especially in the visible light range. Finally, the magnetic anisotropy energy used to estimate the magneto-electronic properties is studied by the Perdew-Bueke-Ernzerhof functional including the spin-orbit coupling. It is found that the ferromagnetic CrI3 is an indirect and half semiconductor with band gap 2.024 eV,
$ \Delta {\text{CBM}} $ = 1.592 eV,$ \Delta {\text{VBM}} $ = 0.238 eV and can be driven into AF-Néel antiferromagnetic phase by applying –6% to –8% (compressive) biaxial stain, exhibiting excellent agreement with the results from the literature. It is found that of single-layer CrI3 has very low carrier mobility with a value within 10 cm2·V–1·s–1 due to the large effective mass and small in-plane stiffness can be remarkably increased by increasing biaxial compression strain attributed to the reduced effective mass. A high electron mobility 174 cm2·V–1·s–1 is obtained in the zigzag direction by applying a –8% biaxial strain reaching the level of monolayer MoS2. The calculated imaginary component of dielectric function along the x (y) direction having two peaks (I, II) in the visible light range is obviously different from that along the z direction, indicating that the single-layer CrI3 has optical anisotropy, demonstrating the good agreement with results from the literature. It is found that the imaginary part of dielectric function shows that an obvious redshift and peak (I, II) values strongly increase with the increase of compressive strain (biaxial), showing good agreement with the calculated electronic structures and indicating that monolayer CrI3 possesses high optical adsorption of visible light under a compressive biaxial strain. Furthermore, it is found that the magnetic anisotropy energy of monolayer CrI3 mainly stemming from the orbital magnetic moment of Cr ions remarkably increases from 0.7365 to 1.08 meV/Cr with g compressive strain increasing. These results indicate that the optoelectronic property of single-layer CrI3 can be greatly improved by applying biaxial compressive strain and the single-layer CrI3 is a promising material for applications in microelectronic, optoelectronic and magnetic storage.-
Keywords:
- strain /
- first-principles calculations /
- carrier mobility /
- optical properties
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图 1 单层CrI3的结构图及原胞(a), AF-Néel晶胞(b), AF-stripy晶胞(c)和AF-zigzag晶胞(d)
Figure 1. Atomic structure of CrI3 monolayer together with unit cell (a), AF-Néel crystal cell (b), AF-stripy crystal cell (c) and AF-zigzag crystal cell (d).
图 2 单层CrI3铁磁结构与反铁磁结构的能量差
$ \Delta {E_{{\text{FM - AFM}}}} $ 随应变的变化规律Figure 2. Variation of energy difference
$ \Delta {E_{{\text{FM - AFM}}}} $ between single-layer CrI3 ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic structures with strain.
图 3 不同应变下的
${{\Delta {\rm{CBM}}, \Delta {\rm{VBM}}}}$ Figure 3. The strain dependence of
${{\Delta {\rm{CBM}}, \Delta {\rm{VBM}}}}$ .
图 4 CBM, VBM和禁带宽度随应变的变化规律
Figure 4. Effect of strain on the CBM, VBM and band gap of CrI3 monolayer.
图 5 双轴应变下单层CrI3的电子DOS分布 (a1)—(a5) 拉伸应变量ε取0到0.08; (b1)—(b5) 压缩应变量ε取0到–0.08
Figure 5. Biaxial strain dependence of DOS of CrI3 monolayer: (a1)–(a5) withεranging from 0 to 0.08 for tensile (compressive) strain; (b1)–(b5) with ε ranging from 0 to –0.08 for compressive strain.
图 6 双轴应变下单层CrI3本征载流子沿x (y)方向的迁移率 (e代表电子, p代表空穴)
Figure 6. Biaxial strain dependence of the intrinsic carrier mobility of CrI3 monolayer in x (y) direction (e represents for electron, p represents for hole).
图 7 单层CrI3在可见光区间内的介电函数虚部
Figure 7. The imaginary component of dielectric function of CrI3 monolayer in the visible light range.
图 8 双轴应变下的介电函数虚部 (a), (c) 拉伸应变; (b), (d) 压缩应变
Figure 8. Biaxial strain dependence of imaginary component of dielectric function: (a), (c) Tensile strain; (b), (d) compressive strain.
图 9 单层CrI3的MAE在y-z面内的拟合曲线图
Figure 9. The curve fitting of MAE in the y-z plane of CrI3 monolayer.
图 10 单层CrI3在不同应变下的MAE (a)和Cr-3d的轨道磁矩(b)
Figure 10. The effect of different strains on the MAE (a) and orbital moments of Cr-3d (b) in CrI3 monolayer.
表 1 单层CrI3电子和空穴沿x (y)方向的物理参数
Table 1. Physical parameters of electron and hole of CrI3 monolayer in x (y) direction, respectively.
Carrier Direction m*/m0 md/m0 Ed/eV C2D/(N·m–1) μ/(cm2·V–1·s–1) Electron x 5.45 5.79 2.29 25.5 3.26 y 6.15 2.25 24.5 2.84 Hole x –2.57 2.32 3.87 25.5 6.05 y –2.10 4.01 24.5 6.63 
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表 2 双轴应变下单层CrI3电子和空穴沿x (y)方向的有效质量m*和迁移率μ
Table 2. The biaxial strain dependence of the effective mass m* and carrier mobility μ of electron and hole of CrI3 monolayer in x (y) direction, respectively.
Strain m*/(m0μ)/(cm2·V–1·s–1) Electron Hole Electron Hole $ m_x^* $ $ m_y^* $ $ m_x^* $ $ m_y^* $ μx μy μx μy 0.08 8.82 10.122 –1.682 –1.652 1.21 1.11 12.80 11.68 0.06 6.42 8.540 –1.79 –1.740 2.18 1.66 11.37 10.46 0.04 6.15 7.640 –2.15 –1.900 2.42 1.89 8.28 8.37 0.02 6.78 6.780 –2.098 –1.858 2.24 2.21 8.74 8.84 0 5.45 6.150 –2.57 –2.100 3.26 2.84 6.05 6.63 –0.02 1.90 1.940 –1.45 –1.410 28.17 27.54 17.37 16.00 –0.04 0.98 1.180 –1.48 –1.510 98.16 80.48 16.25 14.24 –0.06 1.02 1.050 –0.84 –1.040 97.56 94.28 45.84 33.31 –0.08 0.71 0.970 –0.78 –0.920 173.53 126.24 54.29 41.06
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[1] Huang B, Clark G, Navarro-Moratalla E, Klein D R, Cheng R, Seyler K L, Zhong D, Schmidgall E, McGuire M A, Cobden D H 2017 Nature 546 270
Google Scholar
[2] Gong C, Li L, Li Z L, Ji H W, Stern A, Xia Y, Cao T, Bao W, Wang C Z, Wang Y, Qiu Z Q, Cava R J, Louie S G, Xia J, Zhang X 2017 Nature 546 265
Google Scholar
[3] Mermin N D, Wagner H 1966 Phys. Rev. Lett. 17 1133
Google Scholar
[4] Sivadas N, Okamoto S, Xu X D, Fennie C J, Xiao D 2018 Nano Lett. 18 7658
Google Scholar
[5] Guo G X, Bi G, Cai C F, Wu H Z 2018 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 30 285303
Google Scholar
[6] Webster L, Yan J A 2018 Phys. Rev. B 98 144411
Google Scholar
[7] Bacaksiz C, Šabani D, Menezes R M, Milošević M V 2021 Phys. Rev. B 103 125418
Google Scholar
[8] Kresse G, Furthmüller J 1996 Phys. Rev. B 54 11169
Google Scholar
[9] Baerends E J 1999 Theor. Chem. Acc. 103 265
Google Scholar
[10] Wu Z W, Yu J, Yuan S J 2019 Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 21 7750
Google Scholar
[11] Mukherjee T, Chowdhury S, Jana D, Lew Yan Voon L C 2019 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 31 335802
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[12] Pizzochero M, Yazyev O V 2020 J. Phys. Chem. C 124 7585
[13] Heyd J, Scuseria G E, Ernzerhof M 2003 J. Chem. Phys. 118 8207
Google Scholar
[14] Lou B B, Wen J, Cai J J, Yeung Y Y, Yin M, Duan C K 2021 Phys. Rev. B 103 075109
Google Scholar
[15] Liu X F, Gao P F, Hu W, Yang J L 2020 J. Phys. Chem. Lett 11 4070
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[16] Zhang W B, Qu Q, Zhu P, Lam C H 2015 J. Mater. Chem. C 3 12457
Google Scholar
[17] Dillon J F, Olson C E 1965 J. Appl. Phys. 36 1259
Google Scholar
[18] Kanazawa K K, Street G B 1970 Phys. Status Solidi B 38 445
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[19] Guizzetti G, Nosenzo L, Pollini I, Reguzzoni E, Samoggia G, Spinolo G 1976 Phys. Rev. B 14 4622
Google Scholar
[20] Bučko T, Lebègue S, Hafner J, et al. 2013 Phys. Rev. B 87 064110
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
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