Two- and one-dimensional honeycomb structures of silicon and germanium.

By S. Cahangirov, M. Topsakal, E. Akturk, H. Sahin, S. Ciraci. Physical Review Letters, 2008

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First-principles calculations of structure optimization, phonon modes, and finite temperature molecular dynamics predict that silicon and germanium can have stable, two-dimensional, low-buckled, honeycomb structures. Similar to graphene, these puckered structures are ambipolar and their charge carriers can behave like a massless Dirac fermion due to their pi and pi(*) bands which are crossed linearly at the Fermi level. In addition to these fundamental properties, bare and hydrogen passivated nanoribbons of Si and Ge show remarkable electronic and magnetic properties, which are size and orientation dependent. These properties offer interesting alternatives for the engineering of diverse nanodevices.

Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Materials Chemistry

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