Structural dynamics of polycrystalline graphene

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Structural dynamics of polycrystalline graphene
المؤلفون: Liu, Zihua, Panja, Debabrata, Barkema, Gerard T.
المصدر: Phys. Rev. E. 105 (2022) 044116
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Materials Science, Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter
الوصف: The exceptional properties of the two-dimensional material graphene make it attractive for multiple functional applications, whose large-area samples are typically polycrystalline. Here, we study the mechanical properties of graphene in computer simulations and connect these to the experimentally relevant mechanical properties. In particular, we study the fluctuations in the lateral dimensions of the periodic simulation cell. We show that over short time scales, both the area A and the aspect ratio B of the rectangular periodic box show diffusive behavior under zero external field during dynamical evolution, with diffusion coefficients DA and DB that are related to each other. At longer times, fluctuations in A are bounded, while those in B are not. This makes the direct determination of DB much more accurate, from which DA can then be derived indirectly. We then show that the dynamic behavior of polycrystalline graphene under external forces can also be derived from DA and DB via the Nernst-Einstein relation. Additionally, we study how the diffusion coefficients depend on structural properties of the polycrystalline graphene, in particular, the density of defects.
Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.105.044116
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11816
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2111.11816
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevE.105.044116