Two and one-dimensional honeycomb structures of silicon and germanium

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

Publishing date

2008-11-26

URL

arxiv.org/abs/0811.4412v4

Journals

Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 236804 (2009)

Science

Physics

Field

Condensed Matter

SubField

Materials Science

Additional info

4 pages, 3 figures and 1 table. (published in Physical Review Letters)

Type

Scientific paper

Digital Object Identifier

10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.236804

Abstract

Based on first-principles calculations of structure optimization, phonon modes and finite temperature molecular dynamics, we predict that silicon and germanium have stable, two-dimensional, low-buckled, honeycomb structures. Similar to graphene, they are ambipolar and their charge carriers can behave like a massless Dirac fermions 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.

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