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 …

Since the discovery of graphene just over a decade ago, 2D materials have been a central
focus of materials research and engineering because of their unique properties and …

The great success of graphene has encouraged the fast development of other two-
dimensional (2D) nanosheets, which have attracted extensive attention in different scientific …

Silicene, a two-dimensional (2D) honeycomb structure similar to graphene, has been
successfully fabricated on an Ir (111) substrate. It is characterized as a (√ 7×√ 7) …

By using ab initio calculations, we predict that a vertical electric field is able to open a band
gap in semimetallic single-layer buckled silicene and germanene. The sizes of the band gap …

Using atomic resolved scanning tunneling microscopy, we present here the experimental
evidence of a silicene sheet (graphenelike structure) epitaxially grown on a close-packed …

Silicene–the silicon-based counterpart of graphene–has a two dimensional structure that is
responsible for the variety of potentially useful chemical and physical properties. The …

Silicene is emerging as a two-dimensional material with very attractive electronic properties
for a wide range of applications; it is a particularly promising material for nano-electronics in …

We report on the electronic properties of straight, 1.6 nm wide, silicene nanoribbons on Ag
(110), arranged in a one-dimensional grating with a pitch of 2 nm, whose high-resolution …

Using the density functional theory calculations, we systematically investigate the structures
and properties of silicene-like SiX and XSi3 (X= B, C, N, Al, P) hexagonal heterosheets. For …