Evidence of silicene in honeycomb structures of silicon on Ag(111)

Nano Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 3507-3511

  Feng, Baojie ^a   Ding, Zijing ^a   Meng, Sheng ^a   Yao, Yugui ^a,b   He, Xiaoyue ^a   Cheng, Peng ^a   Chen, Lan ^a   Wu, Kehui ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Ag(111); first principles calculation; molecular beam epitaxy; scannning tunneling microscopy; Silicene

Indexed keywords

AG(111) SURFACE; BUILDING BLOCKES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HIGH QUALITY; HONEYCOMB LATTICES; SILICENE; SILICON RING;

CALCULATIONS; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MOLECULAR BEAM EPITAXY; MONOLAYERS; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

SILVER;

EID: 84863821551     PISSN: 15306984     EISSN: 15306992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nl301047g     Document Type: Article

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