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The elemental two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene, silicene, germanene, and black phosphorus have attracted considerable attention due to their fascinating physical properties. Structurally they possess the honeycomb or…
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Group IV and V monolayers are the promising state-of-the-art 2D materials owing to their high carrier mobility, tunable bandgaps, and optical linear dichroism along with outstanding electronic and thermoelectric properties. Furthermore,…
Using first-principles plane-wave calculations systematic study of magnetic properties of doped two-dimensional honeycomb structures of III-V binary compounds have been conducted, either for magnetic or nonmagnetic dopants. Calculations…
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The search for topological semimetals is mainly focused on heavy-element compounds as following the footsteps of previous research on topological insulators, with less attention on light-element materials. However, the negligible spin orbit…