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Electron Energy Loss Function of Silicene and Germanene Multilayers on Silver

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Author(s)

Anna L. Rast, Vinod K. Tewary

Abstract

We calculate electron energy loss spectra (EELS) for composite plasmonic structures based on silicene and germanene. A continued-fraction expression for the effective dielectric function is used to perform multiscale calculations of EELS for both silicene and germanene-based structures on silver substrates. A distinctive change in plasmonic response occurs for structures with a germanene or silicene surface coating of more than three layers. These differences may be exploited using spectroscopic characterization in order to determine if a few-layer coating has been successfully fabricated.
Citation
Physical Review B

Keywords

plasmonics, electron energy loss spectroscopy, silicene, germanene, 2D materials

Citation

Rast, A. and Tewary, V. (2013), Electron Energy Loss Function of Silicene and Germanene Multilayers on Silver, Physical Review B (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created November 4, 2013, Updated February 19, 2017