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 …

Silicene, the ultimate scaling of a silicon atomic sheet in a buckled honeycomb lattice,
represents a monoelemental class of two-dimensional (2D) materials similar to graphene …

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 …

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

Silicene, a single‐layer‐thick silicon nanosheet with a honeycomb structure, is successfully
fabricated by the molecular‐beam‐epitaxy (MBE) deposition method on metallic substrates …

The energy dispersion of fermions or bosons vanishes in momentum space if destructive
quantum interference occurs in a frustrated Kagome lattice with only nearest-neighbor …

Inspired by the success of graphene, various two dimensional (2D) structures in free
standing (FS)(hypothetical) form and on different substrates have been proposed recently …

During the last decade, there has been considerable interest of researchers towards the use
of two-dimensional (2D) materials for the electronic device implementations. The main …

Despite the advanced stage of diamond thin-film technology, with applications ranging from
superconductivity to biosensing, the realization of a stable and atomically thick two …

Since the breakthrough of graphene, considerable efforts have been made to search for two-
dimensional (2D) materials composed of other group 14 elements, in particular silicon and …