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Tantardini C, Kvashnin AG, Azizi M, Gonze X, Gatti C, Altalhi T, Yakobson BI. Electronic Properties of Functionalized Diamanes for Field-Emission Displays. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2023; 15:16317-16326. [PMID: 36926821 PMCID: PMC10064316 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c01536] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/02/2023] [Accepted: 03/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
Abstract
Ultrathin diamond films, or diamanes, are promising quasi-2D materials that are characterized by high stiffness, extreme wear resistance, high thermal conductivity, and chemical stability. Surface functionalization of multilayer graphene with different stackings of layers could be an interesting opportunity to induce proper electronic properties into diamanes. Combination of these electronic properties together with extraordinary mechanical ones will lead to their applications as field-emission displays substituting original devices with light-emitting diodes or organic light-emitting diodes. In the present study, we focus on the electronic properties of fluorinated and hydrogenated diamanes with (111), (110), (0001), (101̅0), and (2̅110) crystallographic orientations of surfaces of various thicknesses by using first-principles calculations and Bader analysis of electron density. We see that fluorine induces an occupied surface electronic state, while hydrogen modifies the occupied bulk state and also induces unoccupied surface states. Furthermore, a lower number of layers is necessary for hydrogenated diamanes to achieve the convergence of the work function in comparison with fluorinated diamanes, with the exception of fluorinated (110) and (2̅110) films that achieve rapid convergence and have the same behavior as other hydrogenated surfaces. This induces a modification of the work function with an increase of the number of layers that makes hydrogenated (2̅110) diamanes the most suitable surface for field-emission displays, better than the fluorinated counterparts. In addition, a quasi-quantitative descriptor of surface dipole moment based on the Tantardini-Oganov electronegativity scale is introduced as the average of bond dipole moments between the surface atoms. This new fundamental descriptor is capable of predicting a priori the bond dipole moment and may be considered as a new useful feature for crystal structure prediction based on artificial intelligence.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christian Tantardini
- Hylleraas
Center, Department of Chemistry, UiT The
Arctic University of Norway, P.O. Box 6050 Langnes, N-9037 Tromsø, Norway
- Department
of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Institute
of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry SB RAS, Novosibirsk 630128, Russian Federation
| | - Alexander G. Kvashnin
- Skolkovo
Institute of Science and Technology, Bolshoi Boulevard 30, Building 1, Moscow 121205, Russian Federation
| | - Maryam Azizi
- Université
catholique de Louvain, Place de l’Université 1, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium
| | - Xavier Gonze
- Université
catholique de Louvain, Place de l’Université 1, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium
| | - Carlo Gatti
- SCITEC
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Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “Giulio Natta”, CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, sezione di via Golgi, 19, Milan 20133, Italy
| | - Tariq Altalhi
- Chemistry
Department, Taif University, Al Hawiyah, Taif 26571, Saudi Arabia
| | - Boris I. Yakobson
- Department
of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas 77005, United States
- Chemistry
Department, Taif University, Al Hawiyah, Taif 26571, Saudi Arabia
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