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Atomistically-informed continuum modeling and isogeometric analysis of 2D materials over holey substrates
Moon-ki Choi, Marco Pasetto, Zhaoxiang Shen, Ellad B. Tadmor, David Kamensky
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This work develops, discretizes, and validates a continuum model of a molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂) monolayer interacting with a periodic holey silicon nitride substrate via van der Waals (vdW) forces. The MoS₂ layer is modeled as a geometrically nonlinear Kirchhoff-Love shell, and vdW forces are modeled by a Lennard-Jones potential, simplified using approximations for a smooth substrate topography. The material parameters of the shell model are calibrated by comparing small-strain tensile and bending tests with atomistic simulations. This model is efficiently discretized using isogeometric analysis (IGA) for the shell structure and a pseudo-time continuation method for energy minimization. The IGA shell model is validated against fully-atomistic calculations for several benchmark problems with different substrate geometries. The continuum simulations reproduce deflections, strains and curvatures predicted by atomistic simulations, which are known to strongly affect the electronic properties of MoS₂, with deviations well below the modeling errors suggested by differences between the widely-used reactive empirical bond order and Stillinger-Weber interatomic potentials. Agreement with atomistic results depends on geometric nonlinearity in some cases, but a simple isotropic St. Venant-Kirchhoff model is found to be sufficient to represent material behavior. We find that the IGA discretization of the continuum model has a much lower computational cost than atomistic simulations, and expect that it will enable efficient design space exploration in strain engineering applications. This is demonstrated by studying the dependence of strain and curvature in MoS₂ over a holey substrate as a function of the hole spacing on scales inaccessible to atomistic calculations. The results show an unexpected qualitative change in the deformation pattern below a critical hole separation.
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