Multiscale modeling of polycrystalline graphene: A comparison of structure and defect energies of realistic samples from phase field crystal models

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Multiscale modeling of polycrystalline graphene: A comparison of structure and defect energies of realistic samples from phase field crystal models
المؤلفون: Hirvonen, Petri, Ervasti, Mikko M., Fan, Zheyong, Jalalvand, Morteza, Seymour, Matthew, Allaei, S. Mehdi Vaez, Provatas, Nikolas, Harju, Ari, Elder, Ken R., Ala-Nissila, Tapio
سنة النشر: 2016
المجموعة: Condensed Matter
مصطلحات موضوعية: Condensed Matter - Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
الوصف: We extend the phase field crystal (PFC) framework to quantitative modeling of polycrystalline graphene. PFC modeling is a powerful multiscale method for finding the ground state configurations of large realistic samples that can be further used to study their mechanical, thermal or electronic properties. By fitting to quantum-mechanical density functional theory (DFT) calculations, we show that the PFC approach is able to predict realistic formation energies and defect structures of grain boundaries. We provide an in-depth comparison of the formation energies between PFC, DFT and molecular dynamics (MD) calculations. The DFT and MD calculations are initialized using atomic configurations extracted from PFC ground states. Finally, we use the PFC approach to explicitly construct large realistic polycrystalline samples and characterize their properties using MD relaxation to demonstrate their quality.
Comment: 18 pages, 15 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.94.035414
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1605.03765
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1605.03765
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevB.94.035414