Modeling vacancies and hydrogen impurities in graphene: a molecular point of view

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2008.08.014zbMATH Open1225.82097arXiv0808.0644OpenAlexW2082908631MaRDI QIDQ644004FDOQ644004

Authors: G. Forte, G. M. Lombardo, R. Vilardi, Antonio Grassi, Antonino La Magna, Giuseppe G. N. Angilella, Renato Pucci 

Publication date: 2 November 2011

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We have followed a "molecular" approach to study impurity effects in graphene. This is thought as the limiting case of an infinitely large cluster of benzene rings. Therefore, we study several carbon clusters, with increasing size, from phenalene, including three benzene rings, up to coronene 61, with 61 benzene rings. The impurities considered were a chemisorbed H atom, a vacancy, and a substitutional proton. We performed HF and UHF calculations using the STO-3G basis set. With increasing cluster size in the absence of impurities, we find a decreasing energy gap, here defined as the HOMO-LUMO difference. In the case of H chemisorption or a vacancy, the gap does not decrease appreciably, whereas it is substantially reduced in the case of a substitutional proton. The presence of an impurity invariably induces an increase of the density of states near the HOMO level. We find a zero mode only in the case of a substitutional proton. In agreement with experiments, we find that both the chemisorbed H, the substitutional proton, and the C atom near a vacancy acquire a magnetic moment. The relevance of graphene clusters for the design of novel electronic devices is also discussed.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.0644

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Atomic physics (81V45) Quantum waveguides, quantum wires (82D77) Statistical mechanics of nanostructures and nanoparticles (82D80)

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