Letter

Layer-stacking effect on electronic structures of bilayer arsenene

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Published 3 March 2017 Copyright © EPLA, 2017
, , Citation Kui Mi et al 2017 EPL 117 27002 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/117/27002

0295-5075/117/2/27002

Abstract

A monolayer of orthorhombic arsenic (arsenene) is a promising candidate for nano-electronic devices due to the uniquely electronic properties. To further extend its practical applications, an additional layer is introduced to tune the electronic structures. Four layer-stacking manners, namely AA-, AB-, AB'-, and AC-stacking, are constructed and studied through using first-principles calculations. Compared with monolayer, an indirect-direct gap transition is realized in AB-stacking. More importantly, a semimetal feature appears in the AC- and AB'-stacked bilayers, leaving the electronic structure of AA-stacking trivial. In addition, the energy dispersion around Γ is largely tuned from the layer-stacking effect. To understand the underlying physics, the $\textbf{k}\cdot\textbf{p}$ approximation is taken to address this issue. Our results show that the level repulsion from the additional layer domaintes the anisotropy of energy dispersion around Γ. The works like ours would shed new light on the tunability of the electronic structure in layered arsenene.

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10.1209/0295-5075/117/27002