Exceptional optoelectronic properties of hydrogenated bilayer silicene

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Huang, Bing ^a,b   Deng, Hui Xiong ^c   Lee, Hoonkyung ^d   Yoon, Mina ^b   Sumpter, Bobby G ^b   Liu, Feng ^e   Smith, Sean C ^b   Wei, Su Huai ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

^d Konkuk University   (South Korea)

^e UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational physics; Condensed matter physics; Graphene

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS; ENERGY GAP; GRAPHENE; HYDROGEN; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; SILICON; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; LIGHT EMITTING MATERIALS; LOW HYDROGEN CONCENTRATION; OPTO-ELECTRONIC MATERIALS; OPTOELECTRONIC APPLICATIONS; OPTOELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; WHITE LIGHT EMITTING DIODES;

HYDROGENATION;

EID: 84904537023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.021029     Document Type: Article

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