From Silicene to Half-Silicane by Hydrogenation

ACS Nano

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 11192-11199

  Qiu, Jinglan ^a   Fu, Huixia ^a   Xu, Yang ^a,b   Zhou, Qing ^b   Meng, Sheng ^a   Li, Hui ^a   Chen, Lan ^a   Wu, Kehui ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Beijing ^*  (China)

Author keywords

hydrogenation; scanning tunneling microscopy; silicane; silicene

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; HYDROGENATION; SCANNING TUNNELING MICROSCOPY; SUBSTRATES;

C ATOMS; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; FORMATION MECHANISM; GRAPHANE; SI ATOMS; SILICANE; SILICENE; SUB-LATTICES;

CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 84948438083     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5b04722     Document Type: Article

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