Electronic and optical properties of silicon based porous sheets

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Publication Date 2014-06-13
DOI 10.1039/C4CP01491J
Impact Factor 3.676
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Si based sheets have attracted tremendous attention due to their compatibility with the well-developed Si-based semiconductor industry. On the basis of state-of-the-art theoretical calculations, we systematically study the stability, electronic and optical properties of Si based porous sheets including g-Si4N3, g-Si3N4, g-Si3N3 and g-Si3P3. We find that the g-Si3N3 and g-Si3P3 sheets are thermally stable, while the g-Si4N3 and g-Si3N4 are unstable. Different from the silicene-like sheets of SiN and Si3N which are nonplanar and metallic, both the porous g-Si3N3 and g-Si3P3 sheets are planar and nonmetallic, and the former is an indirect band gap semiconductor with a band gap of 3.50 eV, while the latter is a direct band gap semiconductor with a gap of 1.93 eV. Analysis of the optical absorption spectrum reveals that the g-Si3P3 sheet may have applications in solar absorbers owing to its narrow direct band gap and wide range optical absorption in the visible light spectrum.

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