Tuning the electronic, photocatalytic and optical properties of hydrogenated InN monolayer by biaxial strain and electric field
Authors: Lanh Chu Van
Chemical Physics
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Publishing year: 12/2020
We investigate the electronic, photocatalytic and optical properties of a fully hydrogenated
indium nitride H–InN–H monolayer under biaxial strain "b and external electric
field E using density functional theory. Our findings demonstrate that the H–InN–H monolayer
is a semiconductor with an indirect energy gap of 2.591 eV. Under a biaxial strain
or electric field, the indirect–direct band gap transition can occur and its band gap depends
dramatically on the "b and E. Our analysis of band edge alignment shows that the H–InN–
H monolayer can possess photocatalytic activity for water splitting when an electric field
or biaxial strain is applied. The optical characteristics of the H–InN–H monolayer depends
greatly on the strain. The first optical gap of the H–InN–H monolayer is at the incident
energy light of 3.320 eV and the tensile strain causes the first optical gap to shift towards
the visible light region.