Various atomic structures of monolayer silicene fabricated on Ag(111)

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Zhi Long ^a   Wang, Mei Xiao ^a   Xu, Jin Peng ^a   Ge, Jian Feng ^a   Lay, Guy Le ^b   Vogt, Patrick ^c   Qian, Dong ^a   Gao, Chun Lei ^a   Liu, Canhua ^a   Jia, Jin Feng ^a  

^a SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ag(111); scanning tunneling microscope; silicene

Indexed keywords

MONOLAYERS; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY;

AG(111); ATOMIC-RESOLUTION; BUCKLING PATTERNS; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; HONEYCOMB LATTICES; SILICENE; STRUCTURAL MODELS; THEORETICAL SIMULATION;

SILVER;

EID: 84904193838     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/7/075006     Document Type: Article

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