Inside Science – Several research groups claim to have thin one molecule thick sheets of silicon called silicene (analogous to graphene for carbon), igniting a controversy over who won the race to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) As the Si counterpart of graphene, “silicene” is an atom-thick, ultimately thin, two-dimensional crystal of silicon. A team of researchers at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science ...

Numerous research groups around the world are reporting that they have created silicene, a one-atom-thick hexagonal mesh of silicon atoms -- the silicon equivalent of graphene. Silicene (pictured ...

Silicene consists of a single layer of silicon atoms. In contrast to the ultra-flat material graphene, which is made of carbon, silicene shows surface irregularities that influence its electronic ...

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 ...

Researchers in Japan have reported successfully producing a single layer of silicon atoms - or silicene - opening a debate about what silicene actually is. Back in April, a group of researchers in ...