Issue 18, 2023

Optical excitations of graphene-like materials: group III-nitrides

Abstract

By using first-principles calculations, we have studied the electronic and optical characteristics of group III-nitrides, such as BN, AlN, GaN, and InN monolayers. The optimized geometry, quasi-particle energy spectra, charge density distributions, band-decomposed charge densities, and Van Hove singularities in density of states are described in the work using physical and chemical pictures and orbital hybridizations found in B–N, Al–N, Ga–N, and In–N chemical bonds. Moreover, the dielectric functions, energy loss functions, absorption coefficients, and reflectance spectra with electron–hole interactions of optical properties are successfully achieved. More importantly, the close relations between electronic and optical properties are successfully demonstrated. The theoretical framework will be useful to research other graphene-like materials.

Graphical abstract: Optical excitations of graphene-like materials: group III-nitrides

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
07 Maijs 2023
Accepted
04 Aug. 2023
First published
11 Aug. 2023
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY-NC license

Nanoscale Adv., 2023,5, 5077-5093

Optical excitations of graphene-like materials: group III-nitrides

N. T. Han, V. K. Dien, T. Chang and M. Lin, Nanoscale Adv., 2023, 5, 5077 DOI: 10.1039/D3NA00306J

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