Increasing the lego of 2D electronics materials: Silicene and germanene, graphene's new synthetic cousins

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 9467, Issue January, 2015, Pages

  Laa, Guy Le ^a   Salomon, Eric ^a   Angot, Thierry ^a   Dávila, Maria Eugenia ^b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIA DE MATERIALES DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Beyond graphene; Germanene; Silicene; Two dimensional materials

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; GROWTH (MATERIALS); NANOTECHNOLOGY;

DIGITAL ELECTRONICS; ELECTRONICS MATERIALS; GERMANENE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SILICENE; SINGLE LAYER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84937053180     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.2177127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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