KEYWORDS:Intrinsic defects Impurity state
Magnetic momentFormation energy
First-principles calculationsThe electronic and magnetic properties of native point defects including vacancies V Ga and V S , antisites Ga S and S Ga , and interstitials Ga i and S i in monolayer and bulk GaS have been systemically studied using density functional theory (DFT) method. For the monolayer, it is found that the impurity states appear in the band gaps of all defect structures except the interstitial S i . Furthermore, half-metallic behaviors can be obtained in the presence of V Ga and Ga i . Monolayers with V Ga , Ga S , S Ga , and Ga i obtain total magnetic moment of 1.0 µ B , so does the bulks with V Ga , Ga S , and S Ga , while monolayers with V S and S i and bulk with Ga i are proved to be spin-unpolarized. In addition, n-and p-type GaS monolayers can be obtained in Ga-rich and S-rich conditions, respectively. Moreover, Ga S and S Ga are identified as suitable n-and p-type defects, respectively.Recently two dimensional (2D) materials have attracted a growing interest in their potential exotic transport physics and prospects for technological applications owing to their remarkable electrical, optical, magnetic, and mechanical properties. [1][2][3][4] In this context, monolayer GaS, one kind of III-VI semiconductors, has been extensively studied from the basic properties such as its photovoltaic and photoelectronic aspects to the corresponding industrial applications like solar cells, solid-state batteries, and memory devices. 5-13 Recently GaS and GaSe monolayer fieldeffect transistors (FETs) have been made with n-and p-type conducting features, respectively. 13 A few-layer GaS two-terminal photodetector with a fast and stable response has been also fabricated by Yang et al.. 14 They reported that higher photo-response and external quantum efficiency (EQE) are obtained in ammonia (NH 3 ) than in air or oxygen (O 2 ) due to opposite roles that NH 3 and O 2 have played during the charge transfer between the adsorbed gas molecules and the photodetector. Moreover, the doped few-layer GaS has also been considered as a promising material for the fabrication of near-blue-light emitting devices by controlling the defects and their electronic properties in the preparation progress. 15On the theoretical side, the structural and electronic properties of the GaS layered compound have been extensively studied using DFT by many works. [16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] have shown that 2D crystals of Ga 2 X 2 (X=S, Se, and Te) are dynamically stable indirect-band-gap semiconductors with a sombrero dispersion of holes near the valence band maximum (VBM).Ma et al. 17 have presented that the band gaps of GaS and GaSe increase from multilayer to single layer and can be tuned widely under mechanical strain, which makes them potential candidates for tunable nanodevices. Orudzhev and Kasumova 18 have established that elastic constants of GaS layered compound in the pressure range of 0-20 GPa increase monotonically as the pressure