Published July 31, 2020 | Version v1
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Profiling novel high-conductivity 2D semiconductors

  • 1. nanomat/QMAT/CESAM and European Theoretical Spectroscopy Facility, University of Liege (Uliege), BE-4000 Liège, Belgium
  • 2. Theory and Simulation of Materials (THEOS), and National Centre for Computational Design and Discovery of Novel Materials (MARVEL), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
  • 3. Dipartimento di Fisica Informatica e Matematica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213/a, I-41125 Modena, Italy
  • 4. Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland

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When complex mechanisms are involved, pinpointing high-performance materials within large databases is a major challenge in materials discovery. We focus here on phonon-limited conductivities, and study 2D semiconductors doped by field effects. Using state-of-the-art density-functional perturbation theory and Boltzmann transport equation, we discuss 11 monolayers with outstanding transport properties. These materials are selected from a computational database of exfoliable materials providing monolayers that are dynamically stable and that do not have more than 6 atoms per unit cell. We first analyze electron-phonon scattering in two well-known systems: electron-doped InSe and hole-doped phosphorene. Both are single-valley systems with weak electron-phonon interactions, but they represent two distinct pathways to fast transport: a steep and deep isotropic valley for the former and strongly anisotropic electron-phonon physics for the latter. We identify similar features in the database and compute the conductivities of the relevant monolayers. This process yields several high-conductivity materials, some of them only very recently emerging in the literature (GaSe, Bi₂SeTe₂, Bi₂Se₃, Sb₂SeTe₂), others never discussed in this context (AlLiTe₂, BiClTe, ClGaTe, AuI). Comparing these 11 monolayers in detail, we discuss how the strength and angular dependency of the electron-phonon scattering drives key differences in the transport performance of materials despite similar valley structure. We also discuss the high conductivity of hole-doped WSe₂, and how this case study shows the limitations of a selection process that would be based on band properties alone. In this entry we provide the AiiDA database with the calculations of phonons and electron-phonon interactions for the 11 materials, along with the python library to collect and visualise the data, solve the Botzmann transport equation, and launch the same workflows for other 2D materials. To guide the reader, we include a Jupyter notebook showing how to extract the data, use the basic functionalities of the library, and regenerate the plots included in the associated paper.

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References

Preprint (arXiv preprint of paper associated with the data)
T. Sohier, M. Gibertini, N. Marzari, arXiv:2007.16110 (2020)

Preprint (Preprint manuscript of the paper associated with the data.)
T. Sohier, M. Gibertini, N. Marzari, Preprint ORBi:2268/249843 (2020)

Software (Small AiiDA plugin used to deal with phonon and electron-phonon calculations involved in computing the transport properties as in the associated paper.)
T. Sohier, aiida-qe-epc plugin on Gitlab (2020)

Software (Custom version of Quantum ESPRESSO (5.1), including small modifications to electron-phonon routines, to be used with the aiida-qe-epc plugin.)
T. Sohier, qe-2D-FET version of Quantum ESPRESSO on Gitlab (2020)

Journal reference (Published paper)
T. Sohier, M. Gibertini and N. Marzari, 2D Materials 8, 015025 (2020), doi: 10.1088/2053-1583/abc5d0

Journal reference (Published paper)
T. Sohier, M. Gibertini and N. Marzari, 2D Materials 8, 015025 (2020)