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We explore the adsorption of MoS2 on a range of metal substrates by means of first-principles density functional theory calculations. Including van der Waals forces in the density functional is essential to capture the interaction between…
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1 School of Physics and Astronomy, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia 2 Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET), Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800,…
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Black phosphorus (P) has emerged as a layered semiconductor with a unique crystal structure featuring corrugated atomic layers and strong in-plane anisotropy in its physical properties. Here, we demonstrate that the crystal orientation and…
Binary metallic phosphide, Nb2P5, belongs to technologically important class of materials. Quite surprisingly, a large number of physical properties of Nb2P5, including elastic properties and their anisotropy, acoustic, electronic (DOS,…
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Graphene, as a passivation layer, can be used to protect the black phosphorus from the chemical reaction with surrounding oxygen and water. However, black phosphorus and graphene heterostructures have low efficiency of heat dissipation due…
Graphdiyne is prepared on metal surface, and making devices out of it also inevitably involves contact with metals. Using density functional theory with dispersion correction, we systematically studied for the first time the interfacial…
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Violet phosphorus (VP), the most stable phosphorus allotrope, is a van der Waals semiconductor that can be used to construct $\textit{p}$-type nanodevices. Recently, high-quality VP crystals have been synthesized while a deep insight into…
The band structure of single-layer black phosphorus and the effect of strain are predicted using density functional theory and tight-binding models. Having determined the localized orbital composition of the individual bands from…
We present a systematic study of interaction induced dipole electric properties of all molecular dimers in the S66 set, relying on CCSD(T)-F12b/aug-cc-pVDZ-F12 as reference level of theory. For field strengths up to $\approx$5 GV m$^{-1}$…