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Volume 105, Number 3, February 2014
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Article Number | 37005 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/105/37005 | |
Published online | 20 February 2014 |
Structures and electronic properties of oxidized graphene from first-principles study
1 Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Nonequilibrium Synthesis and Modulation of Condensed Matter, Department of Applied Physics, Xi'an Jiaotong University - Xi'an 710049, China
2 Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Department of Physics, Xiamen University Xiamen 361005, China
(a) yzhang520@mail.xjtu.edu.cn (corresponding author)
(b) yhwen@xmu.edu.cn
Received: 13 September 2013
Accepted: 24 January 2014
First-principles calculations have been employed to investigate structures and electronic properties of oxidized graphene. Based on the calculations of binding energy, the stable configurations of single and double O atoms adsorbed on graphene have been firstly explored. Subsequently, two types of geometrical structures of oxidized graphenes with O/C ratio of 1/2 have been discovered, and both exhibit rectangular symmetries with all C atoms in sp3 hybridizations. By using ab initio molecular-dynamics simulations, it is demonstrated that these oxidized graphenes could be maintained at room temperature. Besides, electronic band structures show that both two oxidized graphenes are semiconductors with wide direct band gaps at the Γ-point. The characteristics of atomic orbital contributions at valence band maximum and conduction band minimum have been analyzed. Our study suggests the possibility of opening a band gap of graphene by oxidizations and may provide the ground state of oxidized graphene.
PACS: 73.22.Pr – Electronic structure of graphene / 61.48.Gh – Structure of graphene / 71.15.Mb – Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections
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