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 …

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 …

The structural and electronic properties of nanoscale Si epitaxially grown on Ag (111) can
be tuned from a multilayer silicene phase, where the constitutive layers incorporate a mixed …

Quantum systems in confined geometries allow novel physical properties that cannot easily
be attained in their bulk form. These properties are governed by the changes in the band …

One year after the publication of the seminal paper on monolayer 3× 3 reconstructed
silicene grown on a silver (111) substrate, evidence of the synthesis of epitaxial√ 3×√ 3 …

The great success of graphene has boosted intensive search for other single-layer thick
materials, mainly composed of group-14 atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. This new …

The compelling experimental evidence of multilayer silicene synthesis on one monolayer of
silver deposited on a silicon substrate, Si (111)√ 3×√ 3-Ag, used as a template is reported …

Silicene, a two-dimensional (2D) Si monolayer with properties similar to those of graphene,
has attracted considerable attention because of its compatibility with existing technology …

Two-dimensional elemental topological insulators including silicene, germanene and
stanene are currently the hottest topics in condensed matter physics. We first review the …

We demonstrate the novel growth of silicene grown on Ag (111) using STM and reveal the
mechanism with KMC simulation. Our STM study shows that after the complete formation of …