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Preprint Electronic, Magnetic and Vibrational Properties of Single Layer Aluminum Oxide(2022) Özyurt, A. Kutay; Molavali, Deniz; Şahin, HasanThe structural, magnetic, vibrational and electronic properties of single layer aluminum oxide (AlO2) are investigated by performing state-of-the-art first-principles calculations. Total energy optimization and phonon calculations reveal that aluminum oxide forms a distorted octahedral structure (1T'-AlO2) in its single layer limit. It is also shown that surfaces of 1T'-AlO2 display magnetic behavior originating from the O atoms. While the ferromagnetic (FM) state is the most favorable magnetic order for 1T'-AlO2, transformation to a dynamically stable antiferromagnetic (AFM) state upon a slight distortion in the crystal structure is also possible. It is also shown that Raman activities (350-400 cm^-1) obtained from the vibrational spectrum can be utilized to distinguish the possible magnetic phases of the crystal structure. Electronically, both FM and the AFM phases are semiconductors with an indirect band gap and they can form a type-III vdW heterojunction with graphene-like ultra-thin materials. Moreover, it is predicted that presence of oxygen defects that inevitably occur during synthesis and production do not alter the magnetic state, even at high vacancy density. Apparently, ultra-thin 1T'-AlO2 with its stable crystal structure, semiconducting nature and robust magnetic state is a quite promising material for nanoscale device applications.Article Citation - WoS: 40Citation - Scopus: 38Anisotropic and Outstanding Mechanical, Thermal Conduction, Optical, and Piezoelectric Responses in a Novel Semiconducting Bcn Monolayer Confirmed by First-Principles and Machine Learning(Elsevier, 2022) Mortazavi, Bohayra; Fazel Shojaei; Yağmurcukardeş, Mehmet; Alexander Shapeev; Xiaoying ZhuangGraphene-like nanomembranes made of the neighboring elements of boron, carbon and nitrogen elements, are well-known of showing outstanding physical properties. Herein, with the aid of density functional theory (DFT) calculations, various atomic configurations of the graphene-like BCN nanosheets are investigated. DFT results reveal that depending on the atomic arrangement, the BCN monolayers may display semimetallic Dirac cone or semiconducting electronic nature. BCN nanosheets are also found to exhibit high piezoelectricity and carrier mobilities with considerable in-plane anisotropy, depending on the atomic arrangement. For the predicted most stable BCN monolayer, thermal and mechanical properties are explored using machine learning interatomic potentials. The room temperature tensile strength and lattice thermal conductivity of the most stable BCN monolayer are estimated to be orientation-dependent and remarkably high, over 78 GPa and 290 W/m.K, respectively. In addition, the thermal expansion coefficient of the monolayer BCN at room temperature is estimated to be −3.2 × 10−6 K−1, which is close to that of the graphene. The piezoelectric response of the herein proposed BCN lattice is also predicted to be close to that of the h-BN monolayer. Presented results highlight outstanding physics of the BCN nanosheets.
