Abstract
Silicon does not have a naturally occurring layered allotrope like graphite. However, it is possible to grow monolayer silicene on substrates, as we have seen in Chapter 3 Extending this idea further, one may wonder whether it is possible to synthesize layered silicon structures by continuing the growth started as a monolayer silicene. In this Chapter we discuss the experimental and theoretical works that are based on this idea of multilayer silicene growth.
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Cahangirov, S., Sahin, H., Le Lay, G., Rubio, A. (2017). Multilayer Silicene. In: Introduction to the Physics of Silicene and other 2D Materials. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 930. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46572-2_4
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