2008/11/17 by Abdelkader Kara, Kara, Abdelkader, Christel Leandri +13
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Graphene research and applications #Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci) #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Topological Materials and Phenomena #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0811.2818
arxiv created 2008/11/17 · openalex publication_date 2008/11/17 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Graphene, a flat monolayer of carbon atoms tightly packed into a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice (a one atom thick graphite sheet), is presently the hottest material in nanoscience and nanotechnology. Its challenging hypothetical reflection in the silicon world is coined silicene; Here, we have demonstrated that the silicon nano-wires self-aligned in a massively parallel array recently observed by STM on Ag(110), are true silicene nano-ribbons. Our calculations using density functional theory clearly show that Si atoms tends to form hexagons on top the silver substrate in a honeycomb, graphene-like arrangement.