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 …

Wafer‐scale growth has become a critical bottleneck for scaling up applications of van der
Waal (vdW) layered 2D materials in high‐end electronics and optoelectronics. Most vdW 2D …

We investigate the geometric, electric, and optical properties of two-dimensional honeycomb
lattices using first-principles simulations. The main focus of this work is on the similarities …

Silicon thin film with both remarkable stability and graphenelike properties attract many
research interests in materials science and condensed matter physics. In this paper, two …

Crystalline silicon is dominating the current solar cell market due to the significant efficiency
improvement and cost reduction in last decades. However, its indirect band gap nature …

The discovery of intriguing properties related to the Dirac states in graphene has spurred
huge interest in exploring its two-dimensional group-IV counterparts, such as silicene …

Since the innovative development of photosensitizers (PSs) is pivotal prerequisite for the
successful clinical translation of photodynamic therapy (PDT), the unresolved challenges of …

In search of novel thermoelectric materials, we have investigated the thermoelectric
performance of freestanding pristine and binary alloyed monolayers of noble metals (viz. Au …

Due to their compatibility in the well-developed Si-based semiconductor industry, exploring
two-dimensional (2D) silicon crystals with both sizable band gaps and high carrier mobility is …

We investigate the Andreev bound states (ABSs) and Josephson current in a silicene-based
superconductor-normal-superconductor junction modulated by a perpendicular electric field …