Silicene

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. Free Standing Silicene

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Physical Properties of Silicene

      • Lok C. Lew Yan Voon

      Pages 3-33

   3. Topological Physics of Honeycomb Dirac Systems

      • Motohiko Ezawa

      Pages 35-62

   4. Free-Standing Multilayer Silicene: Molecular-Dynamics and Density Functional Theory Studies

      • Tetsuya Morishita, Michelle J. S. Spencer

      Pages 63-81

3. Modified Silicene

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Soft Chemical Synthesis of Functionalized Silicene

      • Hideyuki Nakano, Masataka Ohashi

      Pages 85-106

   3. Theoretical Studies of Functionalised Silicene

      • Michelle J. S. Spencer, Tetsuya Morishita

      Pages 107-127

   4. Interaction Between Silicene and Non-metallic Surfaces

      • Michel Houssa, André Stesmans, Valeri V. Afanas’ev

      Pages 129-140

4. Silicene on Substrates

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Silicene on Ag(111): Structure Evolution and Electronic Structure

      • Noriaki Takagi, Chun Liang Lin, Ryuichi Arafune

      Pages 143-165

   3. Silicene on Ag(111) and Au(110) Surfaces

      • Hamid Oughaddou, Hanna Enriquez, Mohammed Rachid Tchalala, Azzedine Bendounan, Andrew J. Mayne, Fausto Sirroti et al.

      Pages 167-181

   4. Growth of Silicon Nano-ribbons on Ag(110): State of the Art

      • Bernard Aufray, Bénédicte Ealet, Haik Jamgotchian, Hichem Maradj, Jean-Yves Hoarau, Jean-Paul Biberian

      Pages 183-202

   5. Computational Studies of Silicene on Silver Surfaces

      • Handan Yildirim, Abdelkader Kara

      Pages 203-213

   6. Adsorption of Molecules on Silicene

      • Yi Du, Xun Xu

      Pages 215-242

   7. Epitaxial Silicene: Beyond Silicene on Silver Substrates

      • Antoine Fleurence

      Pages 243-270

5. Back Matter

   Pages 271-276

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This book reviews the current state-of-the art of single layer silicene up to thicker silicon nanosheets, and their structure, properties and potential applications. Silicene is a newly discovered material that is one atomic layer think. It is a two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterial that is classified as a nanosheet, which has large lateral dimensions up to micrometres, but thicknesses of only nanometres or less. Silicon nanosheets are currently a very ‘hot’ area of research. The unique properties and morphology of such materials make them ideal for a variety of applications, including electronic devices, batteries and sensors. 2D nanosheets of silicon can be considered as analogues of graphene. As silicon is already the major component of electronic devices, the significance of nanosheets composed of silicon is that they can be more easily integrated into existing electronic devices. Furthermore, if 2D nanostructured Si can be implemented into such devices, then their size could be reduced into the nano-regime, providing unique properties different from bulk Si that is currently employed. The book is written for researchers and graduate students.

• Absorption of Molecules on Silicene Films
• Atom Functionalised Silicene
• Doped Silicene
• Functionalized Silicene
• Growth of Free-Standing Silicene
• Growth of Silicene Nanoribbons
• Properties of Free-Standing Silicone
• Silicene Reviews
• Single Layer Silicene
• Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials

• School of Applied Sciences, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

  Michelle J.S. Spencer

• Industrial Science and Technology, National Institute of Advanced, Tsukuba, Japan

  Tetsuya Morishita

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