Semiconducting layered blue phosphorus: a computational study.

By Zhen Zhu, David Tománek. Physical Review Letters, 2014

926 citations recorded by the source corpus.

We investigate a previously unknown phase of phosphorus that shares its layered structure and high stability with the black phosphorus allotrope. We find the in-plane hexagonal structure and bulk layer stacking of this structure, which we call "blue phosphorus," to be related to graphite. Unlike graphite and black phosphorus, blue phosphorus displays a wide fundamental band gap. Still, it should exfoliate easily to form quasi-two-dimensional structures suitable for electronic applications. We study a likely transformation pathway from black to blue phosphorus and discuss possible ways to synthesize the new structure.

Subfields: Materials Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/ecda9ae4db3105bea57f4d6fe5757add1a8a9772

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Materials Chemistry

1. Yong‐Wei Zhang
2. Gang Zhang
3. Yongqing Cai
4. Z. Ong
5. V. Sorkin
6. Han Wang
7. Fengnian Xia
8. X. Ling

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

1. A. Du

Citations in the corpus

• Chemical and structural stability of 2D layered materials (2019, background): “Particularly, Zhu et al [214] found that specific dislocations may transfer BP (figure 10(a)) to blue phosphorus (figure 10(b)), with ab initio DFT [215, 216].”
• The renaissance of black phosphorus (2015, background): “hed on black P thin film, both in theory and experiment, covering the topics from band structure (31–33), strain (5, 34–38), defects (39), intercalation (40), and structure varieties (blue phosphorus (41), phosphorus nanotube (42), phosphorus nanoribbon (43–47), and stacked bilayer phosphorus (48)),”
• Recent Advances in the Study of Phosphorene and its Nanostructures (2017, background): “Blue phosphorus has a wider fundamental band gap than BP.(86) The g-polymorph shows an insulator-metal transition caused by in-layer strain.”