First principles many-body calculations of electronic structure and optical properties of SiC nanoribbons
Naresh Alaal, Vaideesh Loganathan, Nikhil Medhekar, Alok Shukla
2016
Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
A first principles many-body approach is employed to calculate the band structure and optical response of nanometer sized ribbons of SiC. Many-body effects are incorporated using the GW approximation, and excitonic effects are included using the Bethe-Salpeter equation. Both unpassivated and hydrogen passivated armchair SiC nanoribbons are studied. As a consequence of low dimensionality, large quasiparticle corrections are seen to the Kohn-Sham energy gaps. In both cases quasiparticle band gaps
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... are increased by up to 2 eV, as compared to their Kohn-Sham energy values. Inclusion of electron-hole interactions modifies the absorption spectra significantly, giving rise to strongly bound excitonic peaks in these systems.The results suggest that hydrogen-passivated armchair SiC nanoribbons have the potential to be used in optoelectronic devices operating in the UV-Vis region of the spectrum. We also compute the formation energies of these nanoribbons as a function of their widths, and conclude that hydrogen-saturated ribbons will be much more stable as compared to the bare ones.
doi:10.1088/0022-3727/49/10/105306
fatcat:3dcqwsetsbc3bbjivz3rh6r7da