A review of the growth and structures of silicene on Ag (111)

doi:10.1088/1674-1056/24/8/086802

Abstract

Ag (111) is currently the most often used substrate for growing silicene films. Silicene forms a variety of different phases on the Ag (111) substrate. However, the structures of these phases are still not fully understood so far. In this brief review we summarize the growth condition and resulting silicene phases on Ag (111), and discuss the most plausible structural model and electronic property of individual phases. The existing debates on silicene on Ag (111) system are clarified as mush as possible.

Keywords: silicene scanning tunneling microscopy surface structure Dirac fermion

Received: 03 April 2015
Revised: 29 May 2015
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PACS:	68.37.Ef	(Scanning tunneling microscopy (including chemistry induced with STM))
	73.22.-f	(Electronic structure of nanoscale materials and related systems)
	61.48.-c	(Structure of fullerenes and related hollow and planar molecular structures)
	71.20.Mq	(Elemental semiconductors)

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Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant Nos. 2012CB921703 and 2013CB921702), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11334011), and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDB07020100).

Corresponding Authors: Wu Ke-Hui
E-mail: khwu@aphy.iphy.ac.cn

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Wu Ke-Hui (吴克辉) A review of the growth and structures of silicene on Ag (111) 2015 Chin. Phys. B 24 086802

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