Title

A Review On Silicene - New Candidate For Electronics

Keywords

Electronic structure; Epitaxial growth; Honeycomb; Metal surfaces; Silicene; Silicon; STM

Abstract

Silicenethe silicon-based counterpart of graphenehas a two dimensional structure that is responsible for the variety of potentially useful chemical and physical properties. The existence of silicene has been achieved recently owing to experiments involving epitaxial growth of silicon as stripes on Ag(001), ribbons on Ag(110), and sheets on Ag(111). The nano-ribbons observed on Ag(110) were foundby both high definition experimental scanning tunneling microscopy images and density functional theory calculationsto consist of an arched honeycomb structure. Angle resolved photo-emission experiments on these silicene nano-ribbons on Ag(110), along the direction of the ribbons, showed a band structure which is analogous to the Dirac cones of graphene. Unlike silicon surfaces, which are highly reactive to oxygen, the silicene nano-ribbons were found to be resistant to oxygen reactivity. On the theoretical side, recent extensive efforts have been deployed to understand the properties of standalone silicene sheets and nano-ribbons using both tight-binding and density functional theory calculations. Unlike graphene it is demonstrated that silicene sheets are stable only if a small buckling (0.44 ) is present. The electronic properties of silicene nano-ribbons and silicene sheets were found to resemble those of graphene. Although this is a fairly new avenue, the already obtained outcome from these important first steps in understanding silicene showed promising features that could give a new future to silicon in the electronics industry, thus opening a promising route toward wide-range applications. In this review, we plan to introduce silicene by presenting the available experimental and theoretical studies performed to date, and suggest future directions to be explored to make the synthesis of silicene a viable one. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Publication Date

1-1-2012

Publication Title

Surface Science Reports

Volume

67

Issue

1

Number of Pages

1-18

Document Type

Review

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfrep.2011.10.001

Socpus ID

81255129700 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/81255129700

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