Stanene vs Germanene - What's the difference?
stanene | germanene | Related terms |
(inorganic chemistry) a two-dimensional layer of tin one-atom thick doped with fluorine, which is a topological insulator (conducting electricity only along its edges). (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)
Germanene is a related term of stanene.
In inorganic chemistry terms the difference between stanene and germanene
is that stanene is a two-dimensional layer of tin one-atom thick doped with fluorine, which is a topological insulator (conducting electricity only along its edges) while germanene is an allotrope of germanium that has a hexagonal, planar structure analogous to graphene.stanene
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(-)germanene
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- 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.
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- We present first-principles studies of the optical absorbance of the group IV honeycomb crystals graphene, silicene, germanene , and tinene.
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- 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.