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JOURNAL OF SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND NOVEL MAGNETISM
Volume 22, Issue 3, Pages 259-263Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10948-008-0427-8
Keywords
Silicene; Graphene; Stripes; Superconductivity
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- UCF start-up fund
- Ministerio de Education y Ciencia (Spain) [MAT2006-13796]
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Silicene, a monolayer of silicon atoms tightly packed into a two-dimensional honeycomb lattice, is the challenging hypothetical reflection in the silicon realm of graphene, a one-atom thick graphite sheet, presently the hottest material in condensed matter physics. If existing, it would also reveal a cornucopia of new physics and potential applications. Here, we reveal the epitaxial growth of silicene stripes self-aligned in a massively parallel array on the anisotropic silver (110) surface. This crucial step in the silicene gold rush could give a new kick to silicon on the electronics road-map and open the most promising route towards wide-ranging applications. A hint of superconductivity in these silicene stripes poses intriguing questions related to the delicate interplay between paired correlated fermions, massless Dirac fermions and bosonic quasiparticles in low dimensions.
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