As elemental main group materials (ie, silicon and germanium) have dominated the field of
modern electronics, their monolayer 2D analogues have shown great promise for next …

Silicene, a silicon analogue of graphene, has attracted increasing attention during the past
few years. As early as in 1994, the possibility of stage corrugation in the Si analogs of …

Discovery of graphene and its astonishing properties have given birth to a new class of
materials known as “2D materials”. Motivated by the success of graphene, alternative …

We have grown an atom-thin, ordered, two-dimensional multi-phase film in situ through
germanium molecular beam epitaxy using a gold (111) surface as a substrate. Its growth is …

The fascinating electronic and optoelectronic properties of free‐standing graphene has led
to the exploration of alternative two‐dimensional materials that can be easily integrated with …

Recently, several research groups have reported the growth of germanene, a new member
of the graphene family. Germanene is in many aspects very similar to graphene, but in …

We report the recent progress on the theoretical aspects of monolayer topological insulators
including silicene, germanene and stanene, which are monolayer honeycomb structures of …

Two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit a wide range of atomic structures, compositions, and
associated versatility of properties. Furthermore, for a given composition, a variety of …

One of the fascinating properties of the new families of two-dimensional crystals is their high
stretchability and the possibility to use external strain to manipulate, in a controlled manner …

In this work, we have systematically studied structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of
atomic-scale defects in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides MX 2 (M= Mo and W; X= S, Se …