Highly Biaxially Strained Silicene on Au(111)

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216305%3A26210%2F21%3APU141041" target="_blank" >RIV/00216305:26210/21:PU141041 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c11033" target="_blank" >https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c11033</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c11033" target="_blank" >10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c11033</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Highly Biaxially Strained Silicene on Au(111)
Original language description
Many of graphene's remarkable properties arise from its linear dispersion of the electronic states, forming a Dirac cone at the K points of the Brillouin zone. Silicene, the 2D allotrope of silicon, is also predicted to show a similar electronic band structure, with the addition of a tunable bandgap, induced by spin-orbit coupling. Because of these outstanding electronic properties, silicene is considered as a promising building block for next-generation electronic devices. Recently, it has been shown that silicene grown on Au(111) still possesses a Dirac cone, despite the interaction with the substrate. Here, to fully characterize the structure of this 2D material, we investigate the vibrational spectrum of a monolayer silicene grown on Au(111) by polarized Raman spectroscopy. To enable a detailed ex situ investigation, we passivated the silicene on Au(111) by encapsulating it under few layers hBN or graphene flakes. The observed spectrum is characterized by vibrational modes that are strongly red-shifted with respect to the ones expected for freestanding silicene. By comparing low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) patterns and Raman results with first-principles calculations, we show that the vibrational modes indicate a highly (>7%) biaxially strained silicene phase.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
21001 - Nano-materials (production and properties)

Project
<a href="/en/project/LM2018110" target="_blank" >LM2018110: CzechNanoLab research infrastructure</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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