Abstract
Based on first-principles calculations, we resent a method to reveal the elastic properties of recently synthesized monolayer hydrocarbon, graphane. The in-plane stiffness and Poisson's ratio values are found to be smaller than those of graphene, and its yielding strain decreases in the presence of various vacancy defects and also at high ambient temperature. We also found that the band gap can be strongly modified by applied strain in the elastic range.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 091912 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 96 |
Issue number | 9 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2010 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Part of the computations have been provided by UYBHM at Istanbul Technical University through Grant No. 2-024-2007.