Orientation and strain modulated electronic structures in puckered arsenene nanoribbons

Orthorhombic arsenene was recently predicted as an indirect bandgap semiconductor. Here, we demonstrate that nanostructuring arsenene into nanoribbons successfully transform the bandgap to be direct. It is found that direct bandgaps hold for narrow armchair but wide zigzag nanoribbons, which is domi...

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Main Authors: Z. Y. Zhang, H. N. Cao, J. C. Zhang, Y. H. Wang, D. S. Xue, M. S. Si
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2015-06-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4922329