Investigation of Boron Nitro Silicone Band Modulation Using the Tight-Binding Method

Abstract

Boron nitro silicone (Si2BN), as a 2D material, is widely used due to its outstanding electrical properties. The electrical parameters of Si2BN must be defined and engineered precisely to improve device performance. This paper investigates the band structure and effective parameters of Si2BN using the tight binding approach. The unit cell including 4 atoms is considered for monolayer structure and the Schrodinger equation is calculated to obtain the energy levels. The effect of hopping energy on Si2BN band structure is also studied considering the conduction and valence bands. It is demonstrated that the distance between conduction and valance bands can be modified using the effect of lattice constant variation. The obtained results show that the nature of matter changes with fluctuating hopping energy of Si2BN. Alteration of the material properties can be explained in the form of applied perpendicular electric field to the Si2BN surface or strain and stress effects. The overlap energy variation in the form of band gap modulation is also explored and it is concluded that the band gap is decreased by strengthening of Silicon–Boron interaction. This research emphasized that obtained results are now suitable for being employed in different applications of nanoelectronics.

Decoupling 1D and 2D features of 2D sp-nanoribbons—the megatom model

“…Very recently, the authors of the present work have proposed a stable graphene-like single layered Si 2 BN structure that is free of dangling bonds and entirely flat with unusual sp 2 like bonding for all Si atoms [19,20]. Soon after its discovery, the Si 2 BN structure has attracted the interest of the scientific community and several reports about its potential use in a number of applications have been published since then [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37].…”