Can silicon behave like graphene? A first-principles study
- 13 September 2010
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 97 (11)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3489937
Abstract
The electronic properties of two-dimensional hexagonal silicon (silicene) are investigated using first-principles simulations. Though silicene is predicted to be a gapless semiconductor, due to the sp(2)-hybridization of its atomic orbitals, the weak overlapping between 3p(z) orbitals of neighbor Si atoms leads to a very reactive surface, resulting in a more energetically stable semiconducting surface upon the adsorption of foreign chemical species. It is predicted that silicene inserted into a graphitelike lattice, like ultrathin AlN stacks, preserves its sp(2)-hydridization, and hence its graphenelike electronic properties. (c) 2010 American Institute of Physics. [doi:10.1063/1.3489937]status: publisheKeywords
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