Anéis e pontos quânticos de fósforo negro investigadas por modelo contínuo

Abstract

The possibility of obtaining two-dimensional systems from layered materials has been attracting a lot of research on these materials, since their few layer properties are very different from their respective bulk ones, which opens up great possibilities in technological applications. Black phosphorus exhibit several interesting properties, among them, a direct energy gap, that enables the possibility of fabricating electronic devices (in contrast e.g. with the gapless semi-metallic graphene), and which can be tuned by the number of layers, varying from 0.3 eV for a bulk up to 2.0 eV for a monolayer, thus covering a relatively large range of the energy spectrum for optical devices. Besides, the fact that this is a very anisotropic material has brought even more attention to it, towards novel ways of exploring this anisotropy in new technologies. In this work, we have derived the effective mass approximation from the tight binding model and used the out coming approximate Hamiltonian to study nanostructures based on monolayer black phosphorus. In this model, the anisotropic features of black phosphorus are reflected in the difference between effective masses in different directions. Firstly, we compare the finite difference methods with the analytical solution for a circular quantum dot, which, due to its elliptical contour of energy bands, is given by Mathieu functions for solving the resulting Schrödinger equation. With this comparison, we verify the compatibility between these methods. Within the effective mass approximation, we investigate the effect of external electromagnetic fields on a black phosphorus quantum ring, thus analysing the effect of the interplay between these fields and the system anisotropy on its electronic states. Due to the anisotropy, under an applied magnetic field, this ring does not exhibit Aharonov-Bohm oscillations, which can be recovered by assuming an elliptic ring-like confinement. We also investigate the effect of an external electric field applied in x and y directions in a black phosphorus quantum ring on its energy levels. Our results show that, as a consequence of a wave function localization induced by mass anisotropy, energy levels decay quadratically (Stark effect) with the field if it is applied along the armchair direction, whereas an almost linear Stark effect, along with a series of crossing excited states, is observed for a field applied in the zigzag direction, leading to a behavior that is in close resemblance to a double quantum well under a perpendicular electric field.