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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 27, Issue 25, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/25/255005
Keywords
Silicene; phase transitions; STM; post-deposition annealing; Ag(111)
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- Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme within the Seventh Framework Programme for Research of the European Commission, under FET-Open grant [270749]
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Silicene grown on Ag(1 1 1) is characterized by several critical parameters. Among them, the substrate temperature plays a key role in determining the morphology during growth. However, an unexpected important role is also equally played by the post-deposition annealing temperature which determines the self-organization of silicene domains even in the submonolayer coverage regime and consecutive transitions between silicene with different periodicity. These temperature-driven phase transitions can be exploited to select the desired majority silicene phase, thus allowing for the manipulation of silicene properties.
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