Evidence for Dirac Fermions in a Honeycomb Lattice Based on Silicon

Lan Chen, Cheng‐Cheng Liu, Baojie Feng, Xiaoyue He, Peng Cheng, Zijing Ding, Sheng Meng, Yugui Yao, Kehui Wu

Type: Article

Publication Date: 2012-08-03

Citations: 721

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.109.056804

Abstract

Silicene, a sheet of silicon atoms in a honeycomb lattice, was proposed to be a new Dirac-type electron system similar to graphene. We performed scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy studies on the atomic and electronic properties of silicene on Ag(111). An unexpected √3 × √3 reconstruction was found, which is explained by an extra-buckling model. Pronounced quasiparticle interferences (QPI) patterns, originating from both the intervalley and intravalley scatter, were observed. From the QPI patterns we derived a linear energy-momentum dispersion and a large Fermi velocity, which prove the existence of Dirac fermions in silicene.

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