Rise of silicene: A competitive 2D material

J Zhao, H Liu, Z Yu, R Quhe, S Zhou, Y Wang… - Progress in Materials …, 2016 - Elsevier
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 field-effect transistors operating at room temperature

L Tao, E Cinquanta, D Chiappe, C Grazianetti… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Free-standing silicene, a silicon analogue of graphene, has a buckled honeycomb lattice
and, because of its Dirac bandstructure, combined with its sensitive surface, offers the …

Epitaxial growth and structural properties of silicene and other 2D allotropes of Si

L Masson, G Prévot - Nanoscale Advances, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
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 …

A first-principles study of the effects of atom impurities, defects, strain, electric field and layer thickness on the electronic and magnetic properties of the C2N nanosheet

A Bafekry, C Stampfl, M Ghergherehchi, SF Shayesteh - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
Using the first-principles calculations, we explore the structural and novel electronic/optical
properties of the C 2 N nanosheet. To this goal, we systematically investigate the affect of …

Tuning the band gap in silicene by oxidation

Y Du, J Zhuang, H Liu, X Xu, S Eilers, K Wu, P Cheng… - ACS …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Silicene monolayers grown on Ag (111) surfaces demonstrate a band gap that is tunable by
oxygen adatoms from semimetallic to semiconducting type. With the use of low-temperature …

Adsorption of Metallic, Metalloidic, and Nonmetallic Adatoms on Two-Dimensional C3N

M Makaremi, B Mortazavi, CV Singh - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional polyaniline with a C3N stoichiometry is a newly fabricated material that is
expected to possess fascinating electronic, thermal, mechanical, and chemical properties …

Stability and electronic structure of two-dimensional allotropes of group-IV materials

F Matusalem, M Marques, LK Teles, F Bechstedt - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We study six different two-dimensional (2D) allotropes of carbon, silicon, germanium, and tin
by means of the ab initio density functional theory for the ground state and approximate …

Two-dimensional silicon: the advent of silicene

C Grazianetti, E Cinquanta, A Molle - 2D Materials, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Silicene is sometimes thought of as the Si alter ego of graphene. However, experimental
evidence indicates that silicene is substantially different from graphene in terms of its …

Silicene: Genesis, remarkable discoveries, and legacy

ME Dávila, G Le Lay - Materials Today Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
In the realm of two-dimensional (2D) materials, besides the ones initially peeled from
lamellar crystals, the artificial emerging elemental ones, called Xenes, appear as strong …

Tunable band gap and do** type in silicene by surface adsorption: towards tunneling transistors

Z Ni, H Zhong, X Jiang, R Quhe, G Luo, Y Wang, M Ye… - Nanoscale, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
By using first-principles calculations, we predict that a sizable band gap can be opened at
the Dirac point of silicene without degrading silicene's electronic properties with n-type …