Planar vs Germanene - What's the difference?
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Of or pertaining to a plane.
Flat, two-dimensional.
(graph theory, of a graph) Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting.
(transistor chip, semiconductor devices) Having a flat profile, not etched into a mesa.
(inorganic chemistry) An allotrope of germanium that has a hexagonal, planar structure analogous to graphene
* 2012', Friedhelm Bechstedt, Lars Matthes, Paola Gori and Olivia Pulci, "Infrared absorbance of silicene and ' germanene ", Appl. Phys. Lett. 100, 261906 (27 June 2012)
* 2013 , Lars Matthes, Olivia Pulci and Friedhelm Bechstedt, "Massive Dirac quasiparticles in the optical absorbance of graphene, silicene, germanene, and tinene", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 25 #39 (4 September 2013) 395305
* 2014 , M E Dávila, L Xian, S Cahangirov, A Rubio and G Le Lay, "Germanene: a novel two-dimensional germanium allotrope akin to graphene and silicene", New J. Phys. 16 095002 (9 September 2014)
As an adjective planar
is of or pertaining to a plane.As a noun germanene is
(inorganic chemistry) an allotrope of germanium that has a hexagonal, planar structure analogous to graphene.planar
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A planar projection of a three-dimensional object is its projection onto a plane.
- A complete graph with more than four nodes is never planar .
Derived terms
* antiplanar * nonplanar * synplanargermanene
English
Noun
(-)p. 261906-1
- Calculating the complex dielectric function for optical interband transitions we show that the two-dimensional crystals silicene and germanene possess the same low-frequency absorbance as graphene.
p. 395305-1
- We present first-principles studies of the optical absorbance of the group IV honeycomb crystals graphene, silicene, germanene , and tinene.
p. 095002-2
- After the successful synthesis of silicene in 2012, which was followed by a surge of studies on elemental, novel two-dimensional (2D) materials beyond graphene, a daunting quest was to obtain germanene , the germanium-based analogue of graphene, already predicted to possibly exist in 2009.