Silicene-Based Layered Materials (eBook)

This book offers a systematic review of the feature-rich essential properties in emergent silicene-related materials, covering mainstream theoretical and experimental research. It includes a wide range of layered systems; namely, few-layer silicene, sliding bilayer silicene, H-, holagen-, Na-, Mg-, Al-doped silicene, C-, B-, N-substituted silicene, and silicene with Ag substrate. The critical factors involving these systems are considered simultaneously. Both multiorbital chemical bondings and spin-orbit coupling, which dominates the diverse phenomena, are explored in detail. Theoretical framework with first-principles calculations are developed to thoroughly describe the physical, chemical, and material phenomena and concise images explain the fundamental properties. The delicate evaluations and analyses are conducted on the optimal lattices, the atom- and spin-dominated energy bands, the orbital- and sublattice-dependent subenvelope functions, the spatial charge distributions before and after chemical modifications, the atom-, orbital- and spin-projected van Hove singularities, the spin densities, and the magnetic moments. With a new perspective on up-to-date mainstream and theoretical research, this book is an invaluable guide for researchers studying silicene-based materials.