Issue 37, 2015

Not your familiar two dimensional transition metal disulfide: structural and electronic properties of the PdS2 monolayer

Abstract

By means of density functional theory (DFT) computations, we theoretically investigated a novel two-dimensional (2D) transition metal disulfide (TMD), namely the PdS2 monolayer. Distinguished from other 2D TMDs which adopt the ordinary 2H or 1T configuration, the PdS2 monolayer presents rather unique structural properties: each Pd atom binds to four S atoms in the same plane, and two neighboring S atoms can form a covalent S–S bond. The hybrid HSE06 DFT computations demonstrated that the PdS2 monolayer is semiconducting with an indirect band gap of 1.60 eV, which can be effectively reduced by employing a uniaxial or biaxial tensile strain. Especially, PdS2 has rather large hole and electron mobilities. Our results suggest that the PdS2 monolayer is rather promising for future electronics and optoelectronics.

Graphical abstract: Not your familiar two dimensional transition metal disulfide: structural and electronic properties of the PdS2 monolayer

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 May 2015
Accepted
19 Aug 2015
First published
19 Aug 2015

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015,3, 9603-9608

Author version available

Not your familiar two dimensional transition metal disulfide: structural and electronic properties of the PdS2 monolayer

Y. Wang, Y. Li and Z. Chen, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 9603 DOI: 10.1039/C5TC01345C

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