Vibrational properties of silicene and germanene

Nano Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-28

  Scalise, Emilio ^a   Houssa, Michel ^a   Pourtois, Geoffrey ^b,c   van den Broek, B ^a   Afanas'ev, Valery ^a   Stesmans, André ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b IMEC   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

2D nanolattice; first principles calculation; germanene; Raman spectra; silicene; vibrational properties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872489781     PISSN: 19980124     EISSN: 19980000     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12274-012-0277-3     Document Type: Article

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