Evidence for Germanene growth on epitaxial hexagonal (h)-AlN on Ag(1 1 1)
2016
In this work, a structural analysis of Ge layers deposited by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on Ag(1 1 1) surfaces with and without an AlN buffer layer have been investigated by x-ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) at the Ge-K edge. For the Ge layers deposited on h-AlN buffer layer on Ag(1 1 1) an interatomic Ge–Ge distance A is found, typical of 2-Dimensional Ge layers and in agreement with the theoretical predictions for free standing low-buckled Germanene presented in literature. First principles calculations, performed in the density functional theory (DFT) framework, supported the experimental RHEED and XAS findings, providing evidence for the epitaxial 2-D Ge layer formation on h-AlN/Ag(1 1 1) template.
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