Tailoring the structural and electronic properties of graphene-like ZnS monolayer using biaxial strain

Abstract

Our First-principles Full-Potential Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations show that a monolayer of ZnS (ML-ZnS), which is predicted to adopt a graphene-like planar honeycomb structure with a direct band gap, undergoes strain-induced modifications in its structure and band gap when subjected to in-plane homogeneous biaxial strain ($\delta$). ML-ZnS gets buckled for compressive strain greater than 0.92%; the buckling parameter $\Delta$ (= 0.00 Å\, for planar ML-ZnS) linearly increases with increasing compressive strain ($\Delta =0.435$ Å\,at $\delta =-5.25$%). A tensile strain of 2.91% turns the direct band gap of ML-ZnS into indirect. Within our considered strain values of $|\delta |<6$, the band gap shows linearly decreasing (non-linearly increasing as well as decreasing) variation with tensile (compressive) strain. These predictions may be exploited in future for potential applications in strain sensors and other nano-devices such as the nano-electromechanical systems (NEMS).

8 pages including the cover page. 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1210.3309

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