We studied the physical, electronic transport and optical properties of a unique pentagonal PdQ2 (Q = S, Se) monolayers. The dynamic stability of 2Dwrinkle like-PdQ2 is proven by positive phonon frequencies in the phonon dispersion curve. The optimized structural parameters of wrinkled pentagonal PdQ2 are in good agreement with the available experimental results. The ultimate tensile strength (UTHS) was calculated and found that, penta-PdS2 monolayer can withstand up to 16% (18%) strain along x (y) direction with 3.44 GPa (3.43 GPa). While, penta-PdSe2 monolayer can withstand up to 17% (19%) strain along x (y) dirrection with 3.46 GPa (3.40 GPa). It is found that, the penta-PdQ2 monolayers has the semiconducting behavior with indirect band gap of 0.94 and 1.26 eV for 2D-PdS2 and 2D-PdSe2, respectively. More interestingly, at room temperacture, the hole mobilty (electron mobility) obtained for 2D-PdS2 and PdSe2 are 67.43 (258.06) cm2 V−1 s−1 and 1518.81 (442.49) cm2 V−1 s−1, respectively. In addition, I-V characteristics of PdSe2 monolayer show strong negative differential conductance (NDC) region near the 3.57 V. The Shockly-Queisser (SQ) effeciency prameters of PdQ2 monolayers are also explored and the highest SQ efficeinciy obtained for PdS2 is 33.93% at −5% strain and for PdSe2 is 33.94% at −2% strain. The penta-PdQ2 exhibits high optical absorption intensity in the UV region, up to 4.04 × 105 (for PdS2) and 5.28 × 105 (for PdSe2), which is suitable for applications in optoelectronic devices. Thus, the ultrathin PdQ2 monolayers could be potential material for next-generation solar-cell applications and high performance nanodevices.
The
density functional theory (DFT) based analysis of cubic phase
cesium lead chloride (CsPbCl3) perovskite is reported.
Here the absence of imaginary frequencies in the phonon dispersion
curves of unit cell of bulk and monolayer CsPbCl3 showed
that both the structures are dynamically stable. The pristine CsPbCl3 monolayer is a wide bandgap semiconductor with an energy
gap of 3.24 eV; therefore, an approach to alter its properties was
adopted by doping Mn at the Pb-site and Nb at the Cs-site, respectively.
In these Mn- and Nb-doped CsPbCl3 monolayers, intermediate
states were generated in both the cases due to Mn-3d and Nb-4d orbitals, respectively, which makes the
transfer of excited photoelectrons easier from the valence band to
the conduction band. The absorption coefficient plots of Mn-doped
and Nb-doped CsPbCl3 monolayers indicated that their absorption
edges get shifted toward low photon energy, i.e. red shifted compared
to the pristine CsPbCl3 monolayer. As both the impurity
atoms considered are transition metals, we have also taken into account
the effect of spin polarization on electronic and optical properties
of doped monolayers. Solar cell parameters of all of these monolayers
have been calculated using the Shockley-Queisser (SQ) limit. The short-circuit
current density (J
sc) of the Nb-doped
CsPbCl3 monolayer was obtained around 655.45 A/m2, and the efficiency of this material came out to be around 15.68%.
For the Mn-doped CsPbCl3 monolayer the value of J
sc came to be around 525.68 A/m2 and
showed strikingly high efficiency of 26.88% thus being a suitable
candidate for its application as an absorber layer in solar cells.
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