Two‐dimensional silicene/silicon nanosheets: An emerging silicon‐composed nanostructure in biomedicine

L Ma, X Song, Y Yu, Y Chen - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Silicon‐composed nanomedicines are one of the most representative inorganic
nanosystems in theranostic biomedicine. The emerging of new family members of silicon …

Resonant spin and valley polarization in ferromagnetic silicene quantum well

Y Wang - Applied Physics Letters, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We propose a silicene-based lateral resonant tunneling device by placing silicene under the
modulation of top nonmagnetic/ferromagnetic/nonmagnetic sandwich nanogates. Following …

Giant Seebeck magnetoresistance triggered by electric field and assisted by a valley through a ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic junction in heavy group-IV monolayers

X Zhai, J Gu, R Wen, RW Liu, M Zhu, X Zhou, LY Gong… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
Electrons in heavy group-IV monolayers, including silicene, germanene, and stanene, have
the ability to exhibit rich physics due to the compatibility of the spin and valley degrees of …

Gate-tunable valley-spin filtering in silicene with magnetic barrier

XQ Wu, H Meng - Journal of Applied Physics, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We theoretically study the valley-and spin-resolved scattering through magnetic barrier in a
one layer thick silicene, using the mode-matching method for the Dirac equation. We show …

Transport properties and thermoelectric effects in gated silicene superlattices

EJ Guzmán, O Navarro, O Oubram… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Low-dimensional thermoelectricity opens the possibility of improving the performance and
the efficiency of thermoelectric devices by redistributing the electron density of states …

Enhancement of the Seebeck coefficient and power factor in gated silicene superlattices induced by aperiodicity

EJ Guzmán, S Molina-Valdovinos, O Oubram… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
This paper theoretically investigates the impact of aperiodic sequences in the ballistic
transport and thermoelectric effect in silicene gated superlattices. In our analysis, we have …

Electron spin inversion in gated silicene nanoribbons

B Rzeszotarski, B Szafran - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
We study locally gated silicene nanoribbons as spin active devices and we solve the
quantum scattering problem in the atomistic tight-binding formalism. Particular attention is …

Valley transport in strained silicene heterojunctions with zigzag and armchair interfaces

ZB Siu, M Jalil - Applied Physics Letters, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We study the carrier transport through a strained silicene heterojunction based on the tight-
binding Hamiltonian, focusing on the effect of the interfaces, ie, zigzag or armchair, on the …

Self-similar transport, spin polarization and thermoelectricity in complex silicene structures

R Rodríguez-González, LM Gaggero-Sager… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract 2D materials open the possibility to study Dirac electrons in complex self-similar
geometries. The two-dimensional nature of materials like graphene, silicene, phosphorene …

Temperature effects on the conductance, spin-valley polarization and tunneling magnetoresistance of single magnetic silicene junctions

JG Rojas-Briseño, P Villasana-Mercado… - Journal of Physics …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic silicene junctions are versatile structures with spin-valley polarization and
magnetoresistive capabilities. Here, we investigate the temperature effects on the transport …