Electronic properties of dehydrogenated nanodiamonds: A first-principles study |
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Authors: | C Wang B Zheng WT Zheng Q Jiang |
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Affiliation: | Department of Materials Science and Key Laboratory of Automobile Materials, MOE, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People''s Republic of China |
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Abstract: | First-principles calculations using quantum-mechanical density functional theory (DFT) are carried out to study the geometric structure and electronic properties of dehydrogenated nanodiamonds with diameters varying from 0.8 nm to 1.6 nm. The results show that the electronic properties of dehydrogenated nanodiamond are quite different from those of bulk diamond or hydrogenated nanodiamond. Surface atoms play an important role in the electronic structure, especially the states near the Fermi level, for dehydrogenated nanodiamond. In addition, it has been revealed that the size-dependent feature in the electronic properties for dehydrogenated diamonds is also contributed by the surface effect, in addition to the quantum confinement effect. |
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