Band-gap tuning and optical response of two-dimensional Si${}_x$C${}_{1-x}$: A first-principles real space study of disordered 2D materials

Abstract

We present a real-space formulation for calculating the electronic structure and optical conductivity of such random alloys based on the Kubo-Greenwood formalism interfaced with the augmented space recursion (ASR) [A. Mookerjee, J. Phys. C: Solid State Phys. {\bf 6}, 1340 (1973)] formulated with the Tight-binding Linear Muffin-tin Orbitals (TB-LMTO) basis with van Leeuwen-Baerends corrected exchange (vLB) [Singh et al, Phys. Rev B {\bf 93}, 085204, (2016)]. This approach has been used to quantitatively analyze the effect of chemical disorder on the configuration averaged electronic properties and optical response of 2D honeycomb siliphene Si${}_x$C${}_{1-x}$ beyond the usual Dirac-cone approximation. We predicted the quantitative effect of disorder on both the electronic-structure and optical response over a wide energy range, and the results discussed in the light of the available experimental and other theoretical data. Our proposed formalism may open up a facile way for planned band gap engineering in opto-electronic applications.

9 pages, 4 figures

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