Stanene: A Promising Material for New Electronic and Spintronic Applications

Abstract

The attractive mechanical and electronic properties of freestanding graphene has led to the exploration of two-dimensional (2D) materials which can be integrated with contemporary electronics. As a 2D analog of graphene, stanene has become a hopeful candidate for 2D films due to its excellent quantum effects, superconductivity, and thermoelectric properties. Focusing on the promising 2D elemental material stanene, the fundamental electronic properties and experimental preparation of this material are reviewed. The prospects of utilizing the ability to manipulate the electronic properties of stanene for nanoelectronic and optoelectronic applications are determined.

Bonding, structure, and mechanical stability of 2D materials: the predictive power of the periodic table

“…The relevant structural data of graphene, 73,75-79 silicene, 72,73,75,[80][81][82] germanene, 73,75,[83][84][85] stanene, 73,75,83,84,86,87 and plumbene 74,[88][89][90] are presented in Table 4. In Fig.…”

Epitaxial growth of honeycomb-like stanene on Au(111)

“…Then further researches have been devoted to exploring the distinct elec-tronic properties of stanene formed on different substrates, such as semiconducting InSb(111), SiC(0001) and MoS2 [11,14,15], semimetals Sb(111) [16], and metallic Ag(111) [17], Cu(111) [18]; for interesting reviews, see Refs. [19] and [20]. Searching for alternative substrate materials, recent theoretical works especially predicted interesting possibilities with the Au(111) surface [21], while density functional theory (DFT) calculations indicate that low-buckled stanene is more stable than highly buckled stanene [3].…”

Structural and electronic properties of Stanene-BeO heterobilayer

“…Researchers of late, have started paying attention to Group-IV elements based two dimensional (2D) materials such as silicene [1][2][3][4][5][6][7], germanene [8] and stanene [8] owing to their similarity in electronic properties with graphene and their possible application in nanoelectronic devices [9]. Among these, stanene has drawn keen interest due to it's possible application as quantum hall insulator [10], topological insulator [11] and topological superconductor [12].…”

“…This buckled structure gives rise to many novel properties such as Spin Hall Effect and bandgap modulation in the presence of an external electric field [15]. The low buckled (LB) stanene structure has a space group of P3m1 [8]. However, stanene shows a zero bandgap without SOC, and a SOC induced bandgap of around 100 meV.…”