Silicene

Part I. Free Standing Silicene

1. Physical Properties of Silicene
Lok C. Lew Yan Voon

2. Topological Physics of Honeycomb Dirac Systems
Motohiko Ezawa

3. Free-Standing Multilayer Silicene: Molecular-Dynamics and Density Functional Theory Studies
Tetsuya Morishita, Michelle J. S. Spencer

Part II. Modified Silicene

4. Soft Chemical Synthesis of Functionalized Silicene
Hideyuki Nakano, Masataka Ohashi

5. Theoretical Studies of Functionalised Silicene
Michelle J. S. Spencer, Tetsuya Morishita

6. Interaction Between Silicene and Non-metallic Surfaces
Michel Houssa, André Stesmans, Valeri V. Afanas’ev

Part III. Silicene on Substrates

7. Silicene on Ag(111): Structure Evolution and Electronic Structure
Noriaki Takagi, Chun Liang Lin, Ryuichi Arafune

8. Silicene on Ag(111) and Au(110) Surfaces
Hamid Oughaddou, Hanna Enriquez, Mohammed Rachid Tchalala, Azzedine Bendounan, Andrew J. Mayne, Fausto Sirroti, Gérald Dujardin

9. Growth of Silicon Nano-ribbons on Ag(110): State of the Art
Bernard Aufray, Bénédicte Ealet, Haik Jamgotchian, Hichem Maradj, Jean-Yves Hoarau, Jean-Paul Biberian

10. Computational Studies of Silicene on Silver Surfaces
Handan Yildirim, Abdelkader Kara

11. Adsorption of Molecules on Silicene
Yi Du, Xun Xu

12. Epitaxial Silicene: Beyond Silicene on Silver Substrates
Antoine Fleurence

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