In 2012, research groups in Japan and Europe reported the production of a single atomic layer of silicon, dubbed silicene. Disagreement in some of the experimental results led to an interesting debate ...

An international team of researchers has taken a significant step towards understanding the fundamental properties of the two-dimensional material silicene by showing that it can remain stable in the ...

As computer researchers have probed further into graphene's structure and capabilities, it's become clear that while the material has amazing potential, it may never be suited for conventional logic ...

(Nanowerk News) An international team of researchers has taken a significant step towards understanding the fundamental properties of the two-dimensional material silicene by showing that it can ...

However, silicene does not seem to exist in nature nor is there any solid phase of silicon similar to graphite. Nevertheless, silicene has been predicted by theory as early as 1994 (see paper in ...

Silicone is a graphene analog built of silicon, the semiconductor which made modern computing possible. Over the last few years, graphene followed by other 2D materials has become the new focus of ...

Silicene is the thinnest form of silicon. It is metallic, has graphene-like mobile carriers and can behave like a semiconductor. The wonder material could lead to even smaller electronics but ...

Researchers in Japan say that they have made 2D honeycomb crystals of silicon that resemble the carbon-based material graphene. This is the second potential sighting of the material dubbed “silicene”; ...

Bruno Grandidier, researcher at the IEMN in Lille, France, investigated the spectral composition of this new "wonder material." Two-dimensional atomic crystals have very high specific surface areas ...

Remember how graphene, the single-atom thick layer of carbon was so slick it was going to change everything? Well it looks like silicene is here to steal the spotlight. Researchers have just made the ...