Electronic structures of graphane with vacancies and graphene adsorbed with fluorine atoms

We investigate the electronic structure of graphane with hydrogen vacancies, which are supposed to occur in the process of hydrogenation of graphene. A variety of configurations is considered and defect states are derived by density functional calculation. We find that a continuous chain-like distri...

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Main Authors: Bi-Ru Wu, Chih-Kai Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2012-03-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3696883
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Summary:We investigate the electronic structure of graphane with hydrogen vacancies, which are supposed to occur in the process of hydrogenation of graphene. A variety of configurations is considered and defect states are derived by density functional calculation. We find that a continuous chain-like distribution of hydrogen vacancies will result in conduction of linear dispersion, much like the transport on a superhighway cutting through the jungle of hydrogen. The same conduction also occurs for chain-like vacancies in an otherwise fully fluorine-adsorbed graphene. These results should be very useful in the design of graphene-based electronic circuits.
ISSN:2158-3226