Tuning the Electronic Properties of Symetrical and Asymetrical Boron Nitride Passivated Graphene Nanoribbons: Density Function Theory

Abstract:

—Density function theory (DFT) based simulation combined with non-equilibrium green function (NEGF) was used to theoretically investigate electrical properties of symmetrical and asymmetrical boron nitride (BN) passivated graphene nanoribbons. Using density function theory method, it is demonstrated that the band gap of armchair (A) graphene nanoribbon (GNR) can be widened with boron nitride passivation. five symmetrical and five asymmetrical structures were considered, for which we obtained band gaps from 0.45 eV to 2 eV for symmetrical structures and 0.3 eV to 1.5 eV for asymmetrical structures. For the same width of graphene nanoribbon, our results showed that asymmetrical structure has a smaller band gap and almost the same conductance in comparison with the symmetrical one. Finally, comparison between the asymmetrical structure and the hydrogenated armchair graphene (h-AGNR) nanoribbon showed that, hBN-AGNR exhibited a higher conductance compared to an h-AGNR for the same width of GNR.

• Periodical: Journal of Nano Research (Volume 54)
• Pages: 35-41
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/JNanoR.54.35
• Online since: August 2018
• Authors: Mohammad Bashirpour, Ali Kefayati, Mohammadreza Kolahdouz, Hossein Aghababa*
• Keywords: Band Gap, Boron Nitride, Graphene, Quantum Conductance

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