First-principles study of defects and adatoms in silicon carbide honeycomb structures

E Bekaroglu, M Topsakal, S Cahangirov, S Ciraci - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We present a study of mechanical, electronic and magnetic properties of two-dimensional
(2D), monolayer of silicon carbide (SiC) in honeycomb structure and its quasi-one …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum confinement in Si and Ge nanostructures: Theory and experiment

EG Barbagiovanni, DJ Lockwood, PJ Simpson… - Applied Physics …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The role of quantum confinement (QC) in Si and Ge nanostructures (NSs) including quantum
dots, quantum wires, and quantum wells is assessed under a wide variety of fabrication …

[HTML][HTML] Depth-sensing ductile and brittle deformation in 3C-SiC under Berkovich nanoindentation

L Zhao, J Zhang, J Pfetzing, M Alam, A Hartmaier - Materials & Design, 2021 - Elsevier
The interplay between ductile and brittle deformation modes in hard brittle materials exhibits
a strong size effect. In the present work, indentation depth-dependent deformation …

Enhanced optical performance of electrochemically etched porous silicon carbide

N Naderi, MR Hashim, KMA Saron… - … science and technology, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Porous silicon carbide (PSC) was successfully synthesized via electrochemical etching of an
n-type hexagonal silicon carbide (6H-SiC) substrate using various current densities. The …

Response of mechanical properties and subsurface damage in β-SiC to temperature and crystal plane during nanoindentation simulation

J Chen, H Wu, S Bai, J Huang - Materials Science in Semiconductor …, 2023 - Elsevier
A series of theoretical calculations based on molecular dynamics (MD) was carried out to
investigate the ceramic material mechanical response of β-SiC. Importantly, the effect of …

Inhibition of quantum size effects from surface dangling bonds: The first principles study on different morphology SiC nanowires

YJ Li, SL Li, P Gong, YL Li, XY Fang, YH Jia… - Physica B: Condensed …, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years, we investigated the structure and photoelectric properties of Silicon carbide
nanowires (SiCNWs) with different morphologies and sizes by using the first-principle in …

Discrete impurity band from surface danging bonds in nitrogen and phosphorus doped SiC nanowires

YJ Li, SL Li, P Gong, YL Li, MS Cao, XY Fang - Physica E: Low-dimensional …, 2018 - Elsevier
The electronic structure and optical properties of the nitrogen and phosphorus doped silicon
carbide nanowires (SiCNWs) are investigated using first-principle calculations based on …

Neutral vacancy-defect-induced magnetism in SiC monolayer

X He, T He, Z Wang, M Zhao - Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and …, 2010 - Elsevier
We perform first-principles calculations to investigate the spin-polarization of vacancy
defects in SiC monolayer. We show that Si and C vacancy defects play different roles in the …

Electronic properties of fluorinated silicon carbide nanowires

A Miranda, LA Pérez - Computational Materials Science, 2016 - Elsevier
The control and modulation of the electronic properties of silicon carbide nanowires
(SiCNWs) are crucial for the obtention of materials with specific electronic features for the …

Effect of material properties on the accuracy of antiresonant approximation: Linear and second-order optical responses

N Tancogne-Dejean, BS Mendoza, V Véniard - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
Many ab initio calculations, in particular in solid state physics, rely on the antiresonant
approximation. In this paper we discuss the derivation, the validity, and the accuracy of this …