Germanene: a novel two-dimensional germanium allotrope akin to graphene and silicene
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2014-09-09Autor
Dávila, M. E.
Xian, Lede
Cahangirov, S.
Rubio Secades, Angel
Le Lay, G.
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New Journal of Physics 16 : (2014) // Article ID 095002
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We have grown an atom-thin, ordered, two-dimensional multi-phase film in situ through germanium molecular beam epitaxy using a gold (111) surface as a substrate. Its growth is similar to the formation of silicene layers on silver (111) templates. One of the phases, forming large domains, as observed in scanning tunneling microscopy, shows a clear, nearly flat, honeycomb structure. Thanks to thorough synchrotron radiation core-level spectroscopy measurements and advanced density functional theory calculations we can identify it as a root 3 x root 3 R(30 degrees) germanene layer in conjunction with a root 7 x root 7 R(19.1 degrees) Au(111) supercell, presenting compelling evidence of the synthesis of the germanium-based cousin of graphene on gold.