Ab Initio Prediction of Piezoelectricity in Two-Dimensional Materials

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 9885-9891

  Blonsky, Michael N ^a   Zhuang, Houlong L ^a,c   Singh, Arunima K ^a   Hennig, Richard G ^a,b  

^a Cornell University   (United States)

^b University of Florida   (United States)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

2D materials; density functional theory; electronic and structural properties; group III V compounds; group II oxides; metal dichalcogenides; piezoelectricity

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; METAL ANALYSIS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; SEMICONDUCTOR MATERIALS; STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; ZINC OXIDE;

BULK PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIAL; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL PERTURBATION THEORY; DICHALCOGENIDES; ELECTRONIC AND STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES; GROUP III; PIEZOELECTRIC COEFFICIENT; TWO DIMENSIONAL (2 D); TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

PIEZOELECTRICITY;

EID: 84945966901     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b03394     Document Type: Article

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