Effects of Oxygen Adsorption on the Surface State of Epitaxial Silicene on Ag(111)

Scientific Reports

Volumn 4, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Xu, Xun ^a   Zhuang, Jincheng ^a   Du, Yi ^a   Feng, Haifeng ^a   Zhang, Nian ^b   Liu, Chen ^b   Lei, Tao ^b   Wang, Jiaou ^b   Spencer, Michelle ^c   Morishita, Tetsuya ^d   Wang, Xiaolin ^a   Dou, Shi Xue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (China)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

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EID: 84930659492     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep07543     Document Type: Article

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