Exploring semiconductor substrates for silicene epitaxy

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 103, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Bhattacharya, Amrita ^a,b   Bhattacharya, Saswata ^a,b   Das, Gour P ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (India)

^b FRITZ HABER INSTITUT DER MAX PLANCK GESELLSCHAFT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; N-TYPE DOPING; OTHER PROPERTIES; P-TYPE DOPING; RELATIVE STABILITIES; SEMICONDUCTOR SUBSTRATE; SILICENE; TOP LAYERS;

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; METALS; MONOLAYERS; SEMICONDUCTOR DOPING;

SUBSTRATES;

EID: 84884837375     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4821993     Document Type: Article

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