Germanium‐based monoelemental and binary two‐dimensional materials: Theoretical and experimental investigations and promising applications

F Zhao, Y Feng, W Feng - InfoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Two‐dimensional (2D) materials based on group IVA elements have attracted
extensive attention owing to their rich chemical structures and novel properties. This …

Thermoelectric effect and devices on IVA and VA Xenes

B Zhu, Q Chen, S Jiang, M Holt, W Zhu, D Akinwande… - InfoMat, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging Xenes, mostly group IVA and VA elemental two‐dimensional (2D) materials, have
small and tunable band gaps between graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides …

Transition metal-decorated germanene for NO, N2 and O2 sensing: A DFT study

AN Sosa, JE Santana, A Miranda, LA Pérez… - Surfaces and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Detecting hazardous and toxic gasses is important to avoid harmful effects on human health
and two-dimensional nanostructures have emerged as candidate materials for sensing or …

Few-layer methyl-terminated germanene–graphene nanocomposite with high capacity for stable lithium storage

F Zhao, Y Wang, X Zhang, X Liang, F Zhang, L Wang… - Carbon, 2020 - Elsevier
Germanene, as a cousin of graphene, has shared increasing attention in recent years. There
have been abundant theoretical and experimental reports on the synthesis and …

Dielectric screening versus geometry deformation in two-dimensional allotropes of silicon and germanium

A Sindona, C Vacacela Gomez, M Pisarra - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The search for connections between electronic and structural features is a key factor in the
synthesis of artificial materials for on-demand applications, with graphene and analogous …

Massive and massless plasmons in germanene nanosheets

M Pisarra, CV Gomez, A Sindona - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Atomically thin crystals may exhibit peculiar dispersive electronic states equivalent to free
charged particles of ultralight to ultraheavy masses. A rare coexistence of linear and …

Atomic insights into single-layer and bilayer germanene on Al (111) surface

DA Muzychenko, AI Oreshkin, AD Legen'ka… - Materials Today …, 2020 - Elsevier
The artificial postgraphene two-dimensional (2D) materials termed 2D-Xenes, which consist
of atoms arranged in atomically thin sheets with a honeycomb lattice, have received …

: Competition between the growth of germanene and intercalation

Z Jiao, Q Yao, AN Rudenko, L Zhang, HJW Zandvliet - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We have scrutinized the growth of germanium (Ge) on molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2) using
scanning tunneling microscopy and density functional theory calculations in order to resolve …

Moiré-modulated band gap and van Hove singularities in twisted bilayer germanene

P Bampoulis, C Castenmiller, DJ Klaassen, JV Mil… - 2D …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Twisting bilayers of two-dimensional topological insulators has the potential to create unique
quantum states of matter. Here, we successfully synthesized a twisted bilayer of germanene …

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy of two-dimensional Dirac materials on substrates with a band gap

HJW Zandvliet, Q Yao, L Zhang, P Bampoulis, Z Jiao - Physical Review B, 2022 - APS
In this paper we show that conventional current-voltage spectroscopy can provide
quantitative information on the dispersion relation of the low-energy electrons of …