Tunable and sizable band gap in silicene by surface adsorption

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Quhe, Ruge ^a   Fei, Ruixiang ^a   Liu, Qihang ^a   Zheng, Jiaxin ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Xu, Chengyong ^a   Ni, Zeyuan ^a   Wang, Yangyang ^a   Yu, Dapeng ^a   Gao, Zhengxiang ^a   Lu, Jing ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

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EID: 84870838654     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00853     Document Type: Article

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