Silicene: Prediction, Synthesis, Application

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This book discusses the processing and properties of silicene, including the historical and theoretical background of silicene, theoretical predictions, the synthesis and experimental properties of silicene and the potential applications and further developments. It also presents other similar monolayer materials, like germanene and phosphorene. Silicene, a new silicon allotrope with a graphene-like, honeycomb structure, has recently attracted considerable interest, because its topology affords it the same remarkable electronic properties as those of graphene. Additionally, silicene may have the potential advantage of being easily integrated in current Si-based nano/micro-electronics, offering novel technological applications. Silicene was theoretically conjectured a few years ago as a stand-alone material. However, it does not exist in nature and had to be synthesized on a substrate. It has since been successfully synthesized and multi-layer silicene structures are already being discussed. Within just a few years, silicene is now on the brink of technological applications in electronic devices. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii A Vision on Organosilicon Chemistry and Silicene (Deepthi Jose, Chandra Chowdhury, Ayan Datta)....Pages 1-21 Density-Functional and Tight-Binding Theory of Silicene and Silicane (V. Zólyomi, N. D. Drummond, J. R. Wallbank, V. I. Fal’ko)....Pages 23-41 Electronic and Topological Properties of Silicene, Germanene and Stanene (Motohiko Ezawa)....Pages 43-71 Optical Properties of Silicene and Related Materials from First Principles (Friedhelm Bechstedt, Lars Matthes, Paola Gori, Olivia Pulci)....Pages 73-98 Synthesis of Silicene (Guy Le Lay, Dmytro Solonenko, Patrick Vogt)....Pages 99-113 Si Nanoribbons: From 1D to 3D Nanostructures (Paola De Padova, Bruno Olivieri, Claudio Quaresima, Carlo Ottaviani)....Pages 115-127 Properties of Monolayer Silicene on Ag(111) (Patrick Vogt)....Pages 129-158 Atomic and Electronic Structure of Silicene on Ag: A Theoretical Perspective (Seymur Cahangirov, Angel Rubio)....Pages 159-178 Silicene on Ag(111) at Low Temperatures (Peng Cheng, Lan Chen, Kehui Wu)....Pages 179-196 Synthesis of Silicene on Alternative Substrates (M. Houssa, E. Scalise, V. V. Afanas’ev, A. Stesmans)....Pages 197-209 Surface Functionalization of Silicene (Jijun Zhao, Kehui Wu)....Pages 211-233 Encapsulated Silicene Field-Effect Transistors (Li Tao, Eugenio Cinquanta, Carlo Grazianetti, Alessandro Molle, Deji Akinwande)....Pages 235-254 Germanene: Silicene’s Twin Sister (Pantelis Bampoulis, Lijie Zhang, Qirong Yao, Rik van Bremen, Caspar J. Walhout, Adil Acun et al.)....Pages 255-267 Back Matter ....Pages 269-276