Formation, Energetics, and Electronic Properties of Graphene Monolayer and Bilayer Doped with Heteroatoms

Doping with heteroatoms is one of the most effective methods to tailor the electronic properties of carbon nanomaterials such as graphene and carbon nanotubes, and such nanomaterials doped with heteroatom dopants might therefore provide not only new physical and chemical properties but also novel na...

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Main Author: Yoshitaka Fujimoto
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/571490
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description Doping with heteroatoms is one of the most effective methods to tailor the electronic properties of carbon nanomaterials such as graphene and carbon nanotubes, and such nanomaterials doped with heteroatom dopants might therefore provide not only new physical and chemical properties but also novel nanoelectronics/optoelectronics device applications. The boron and nitrogen are neighboring elements to carbon in the periodic table, and they are considered to be good dopants for carbon nanomaterials. We here review the recent work of boron and nitrogen doping effects into graphene monolayer as well as bilayer on the basis of the first-principles electronic structure calculations in the framework of the density-functional theory. We show the energetics and the electronic properties of boron and nitrogen defects in graphene monolayer and bilayer. As for the nitrogen doping, we further discuss the stabilities, the growth processes, and the electronic properties associated with the plausible nitrogen defect formation in graphene which is suggested by experimental observations.
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spelling doaj-art-cae3aec719f84a72b39ff3a6e3804d5f2025-02-03T06:11:38ZengWileyAdvances in Condensed Matter Physics1687-81081687-81242015-01-01201510.1155/2015/571490571490Formation, Energetics, and Electronic Properties of Graphene Monolayer and Bilayer Doped with HeteroatomsYoshitaka Fujimoto0Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Oh-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, JapanDoping with heteroatoms is one of the most effective methods to tailor the electronic properties of carbon nanomaterials such as graphene and carbon nanotubes, and such nanomaterials doped with heteroatom dopants might therefore provide not only new physical and chemical properties but also novel nanoelectronics/optoelectronics device applications. The boron and nitrogen are neighboring elements to carbon in the periodic table, and they are considered to be good dopants for carbon nanomaterials. We here review the recent work of boron and nitrogen doping effects into graphene monolayer as well as bilayer on the basis of the first-principles electronic structure calculations in the framework of the density-functional theory. We show the energetics and the electronic properties of boron and nitrogen defects in graphene monolayer and bilayer. As for the nitrogen doping, we further discuss the stabilities, the growth processes, and the electronic properties associated with the plausible nitrogen defect formation in graphene which is suggested by experimental observations.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/571490
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Formation, Energetics, and Electronic Properties of Graphene Monolayer and Bilayer Doped with Heteroatoms
Advances in Condensed Matter Physics
title Formation, Energetics, and Electronic Properties of Graphene Monolayer and Bilayer Doped with Heteroatoms
title_full Formation, Energetics, and Electronic Properties of Graphene Monolayer and Bilayer Doped with Heteroatoms
title_fullStr Formation, Energetics, and Electronic Properties of Graphene Monolayer and Bilayer Doped with Heteroatoms
title_full_unstemmed Formation, Energetics, and Electronic Properties of Graphene Monolayer and Bilayer Doped with Heteroatoms
title_short Formation, Energetics, and Electronic Properties of Graphene Monolayer and Bilayer Doped with Heteroatoms
title_sort formation energetics and electronic properties of graphene monolayer and bilayer doped with heteroatoms
url http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/571490
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