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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
卷 27, 期 44, 页码 -出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/44/443002
关键词
germanene; 2D materials; scanning tunneling microscopy
资金
- Nederlandse organisatie voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek (NWO)
- Stichting voor Fundamenteel Onderzoek der Materie (FOM)
- China Scholarship Council
- European Union Seventh Framework Programme [604391]
Recently, several research groups have reported the growth of germanene, a new member of the graphene family. Germanene is in many aspects very similar to graphene, but in contrast to the planar graphene lattice, the germanene honeycomb lattice is buckled and composed of two vertically displaced sub-lattices. Density functional theory calculations have revealed that free-standing germanene is a 2D Dirac fermion system, i.e. the electrons behave as massless relativistic particles that are described by the Dirac equation, which is the relativistic variant of the Schrodinger equation. Germanene is a very appealing 2D material. The spin-orbit gap in germanene (similar to 24 meV) is much larger than in graphene (<0.05 meV), which makes germanene the ideal candidate to exhibit the quantum spin Hall effect at experimentally accessible temperatures. Additionally, the germanene lattice offers the possibility to open a band gap via for instance an externally applied electrical field, adsorption of foreign atoms or coupling with a substrate. This opening of the band gap paves the way to the realization of germanene based field-effect devices. In this topical review we will (1) address the various methods to synthesize germanene (2) provide a brief overview of the key results that have been obtained by density functional theory calculations and (3) discuss the potential of germanene for future applications as well for fundamentally oriented studies.
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