Issue 46, 2023

The carrier mobility and superconducting properties of monolayer oxygen-terminated functionalized MXene Ti2CO2

Abstract

In this study, the carrier mobility of monolayer Ti2CO2 was evaluated by employing the Boltzmann transport equation and superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of Ti2CO2 was determined by utilizing the Migdal and Eliashberg formalism in the first-principles framework. In contrast to previous studies, the results reveal that optical phonons in monolayer Ti2CO2 have dominant roles in scattering processes, which significantly reduce the mobility of carriers. Alongside the rigid band model, the jellium model is implemented to investigate the screening effects on electron–phonon interactions. Based on the jellium model and full-band electron–phonon calculations, the predicted maximum electron mobility at room temperature is 38 cm2 V−1 s−1 in which 80% of the total scattering rate originates from the intra-valley transitions within the M-valleys, indicating the crucial role of the long wavelength phonon wavevectors in scattering processes. On the other hand, for the p-type material, a maximum room temperature mobility of about 285 cm2 V−1 s−1 is calculated, which can be explained by a relatively small effective mass and tiny scattering phase space. Moreover, a maximum Tc of 39 (10) K is obtained for the n-type monolayer Ti2CO2 based on the rigid (jellium) model. Outcomes indicate that the important peaks of α2F(ω) are mainly caused by the optical phonons. The remarkable couplings between the electron states and phonons are related to the non-zero slope of (near the Brillouin zone center) the longitudinal optical branch denoted by Eu caused by the displacements of oxygen and carbon atoms at intermediate and high energy ranges of phonon dispersion, respectively.

Graphical abstract: The carrier mobility and superconducting properties of monolayer oxygen-terminated functionalized MXene Ti2CO2

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
09 Aug 2023
Accepted
04 Nov 2023
First published
14 Nov 2023

Nanoscale, 2023,15, 18806-18817

The carrier mobility and superconducting properties of monolayer oxygen-terminated functionalized MXene Ti2CO2

R. Shayanfar, M. Alidoosti, D. Nasr Esfahani and M. Pourfath, Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 18806 DOI: 10.1039/D3NR03981A

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