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 …

Beyond graphene: chemistry of group 14 graphene analogues: silicene, germanene, and stanene

T Hartman, Z Sofer - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
Two-dimensional materials have been extensively studied over the last two decades as they
represent a class of materials with properties applicable in catalysis, sensing, optical …

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 …

Recent trends and emerging challenges in two‐dimensional materials for energy harvesting and storage applications

MB Tahir, U Fatima - Energy Storage, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
By itself, the physics of two‐dimensional (2D) materials are often fascinating. All the atoms of
these elemental 2D materials are exposed to the surface, making it relatively easier to tune …

Beyond silicene: synthesis of germanene, stanene and plumbene

J Yuhara, G Le Lay - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Twenty five years after the first theoretical prediction of two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb-
like silicon and germanium, now coined silicene and germanene, the last Group 14 artificial …

[HTML][HTML] Growth of two-dimensional WS2 thin films by reactive sputtering

MMS Villamayor, A Lindblad, FOL Johansson, T Tran… - Vacuum, 2021 - Elsevier
We have deposited WS 2 thin films on Si, SiO 2/Si, and sapphire substrates by reactive
sputtering from a WS 2 target in an Ar/H 2 S atmosphere. We demonstrate that it is possible …

Emerging Dirac materials for THz plasmonics

S Lupi, A Molle - Applied Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Terahertz (THz) photonics is a key-enabling technology for a wealth of urgently demanding
applications and societal challenges like ultrahigh speed communication systems, medical …

Electric field induced pure spin-photo current in zigzag stanene and germanene nanoribbons

F Rahimi, A Phirouznia - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
The spin-photo current in single layer stanene and germanene under a linearly polarized
light is theoretically investigated based on the tight-binding Hamiltonian combined with the …

A DFT study of the electronic and optical properties of four 2D thin films

M Barhoumi, I Said, N Sfina, NK Al-Saleem… - Materials Chemistry and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The optical properties of 2D semiconductors display a wealth of knowledge regarding their
physicochemical parameters, including their electronic and phonon states, as well as the …

Experimental evidence for a new two-dimensional honeycomb phase of silicon: A missing link in the chemistry and physics of silicon surfaces?

JE Demuth - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020 - ACS Publications
A new two-dimensional (2D) phase of Si on Si111 is discussed that consists of ordered
adatoms atop a honeycomb framework that contains ordered antiphase boundaries and …