Uniaxial strain-induced mechanical and electronic property modulation of silicene

Nanoscale Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Qin, Rui ^a   Zhu, Wenjun ^a   Zhang, Yalin ^b   Deng, Xiaoliang ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF FLUID PHYSICS   (China)

^b Institute of Computer Application   (China)

Author keywords

First principles calculation; Silicene; Uniaxial strain

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; SILICENE; STEREOCHEMISTRY;

CHIRALITY DEPENDENCE; FERMI VELOCITIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; HIGH-SYMMETRY POINTS; MECHANICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; METAL TRANSITION; STRONG ANISOTROPY; UNI-AXIAL STRAINS;

STRAIN;

EID: 84907611378     PISSN: 19317573     EISSN: 1556276X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1556-276X-9-521     Document Type: Article

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