First-Principles Study on the Stability and STM Image of Borophene

Zhifen Luo, Xiaoli Fan, Yurong An

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Very recently, borophene (atomic-thin two-dimensional boron sheet) has been successfully synthesized on the Ag(111) surface by deposition. Two kinds of structures were found. However, the identification of the monolayer boron sheets grown on the metal substrate, as well as the stability of different 2D boron sheets, is controversial. By performing the first-principles calculations, present study investigates the atomic structure, stability, and electronic properties of the most possible boron sheets grown on metal surface, namely, buckled triangular, β12, and χ3 types of crystal lattice. Our result shows that all the three freestanding sheets are thermodynamically unstable and all are metallic. On the other hand, our result indicates the Ag(111) substrate stabilize these sheets. Additionally, our simulated STM images of these monoatomic-thin boron sheets on Ag(111) surface reproduce the experiment observations well and clearly identify the as-grown boron sheets.

源语言英语
文章编号514
期刊Nanoscale Research Letters
12
DOI
出版状态已出版 - 2017

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