Synthesis of nonepitaxial multilayer silicene assisted by ion implantation

Nanoscale. 2016 May 5;8(18):9488-92. doi: 10.1039/c6nr02274j.

Abstract

Nonepitaxial multilayer silicene with a lonsdaleite structure was synthesized from a 4H-SiC substrate using an implantation-assisted process. An sp(3)-like bonding signal was fitted in a lonsdaleite Si XPS spectrum. The multilayer silicene was directly observed and the derived interplanar distances were found to be nearly consistent with the theoretical values.