Wednesday, January 16, 2013

1301.3469 (Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl et al.)

Strain-dependent modulation of conductivity in single layer
transition-metal dichalcogenides
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Mahdi Ghorbani-Asl, Stefano Borini, Agnieszka Kuc, Thomas Heine
Quantum conductance calculations on the mechanically deformed monolayers of MoS$_2$ and WS$_2$ were performed using the non-equlibrium Green's functions method combined with the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker approach for ballistic transport together with the density-functional based tight binding (DFTB) method. Tensile strain and compression causes significant changes in the electronic structure of TMD single layers and eventually the transition semiconductor-metal occurs for elongations as large as ~11% for the 2D-isotropic deformations in the hexagonal structure. This transition enhances the electron transport in otherwise semiconducting materials.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3469

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