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Guy Le Lay is affiliated with Aix-Marseille University in France and has focused research efforts primarily in the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Materials Science. Their work extensively covers materials chemistry and atomic and molecular physics, complemented by studies in condensed matter physics and electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's research topics prominently include graphene research and applications, topological materials and phenomena, and 2D materials and their applications. Additional areas of study encompass quantum and electron transport phenomena, surface and thin film phenomena, advanced condensed matter physics, and advanced chemical physics studies.

Le Lay has published frequently in several scientific journals, with notable appearances in:

  • Applied Surface Science
  • 2D Materials
  • Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
  • Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • Materials Today Advances

Their recent papers include:

  • "Beyond silicene: synthesis of germanene, stanene and plumbene," 2020, Japanese Journal of Applied Physics
  • "Continuous Growth of Germanene and Stanene Lateral Heterostructures," 2020, Advanced Materials Interfaces
  • "Silicene: Genesis, remarkable discoveries, and legacy," 2022, Materials Today Advances
  • "Epitaxial growth of honeycomb-like stanene on Au(111)," 2020, Applied Surface Science
  • "Kagome-like silicene: A novel exotic form of two-dimensional epitaxial silicon," 2020, Applied Surface Science

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Guy Le Lay are:

  • Junji Yuhara
  • Masashi Nakatake
  • Masaaki Araidai
  • Sho-ichi Takakura
  • Akio Ohta

Best Publications

  • Silicene: Compelling Experimental Evidence for Graphenelike Two-Dimensional Silicon

    Patrick Vogt;Patrick Vogt;Paola De Padova;Claudio Quaresima;Jose Avila

  • Germanene: a novel two-dimensional germanium allotrope akin to graphene and silicene

    M E Dávila;L Xian;S Cahangirov;Angel Rubio

  • Graphene-like silicon nanoribbons on Ag(110): A possible formation of silicene

    Bernard Aufray;Abdelkader Kara;Sébastien Vizzini;Hamid Oughaddou

  • Evidence of graphene-like electronic signature in silicene nanoribbons

    Paola De Padova;Claudio Quaresima;Carlo Ottaviani;Polina M. Sheverdyaeva

  • Physics and electronics of the noble-metal/elemental-semiconductor interface formation: a status report

    G. Le Lay

  • Few layer epitaxial germanene: a novel two-dimensional Dirac material.

    María Eugenia Dávila;Guy Le Lay

  • Evidence of Dirac fermions in multilayer silicene

    Paola De Padova;Patrick Vogt;Andrea Resta;Jose Avila

  • Graphene's Latest Cousin: Plumbene Epitaxial Growth on a "Nano WaterCube".

    Junji Yuhara;Bangjie He;Noriaki Matsunami;Masashi Nakatake

  • Physics and chemistry of silicene nano-ribbons

    G. Le Lay;G. Le Lay;B. Aufray;C. Léandri;H. Oughaddou;H. Oughaddou

  • Large area planar stanene epitaxially grown on Ag(1 1 1)

    Junji Yuhara;Yuya Fujii;Kazuki Nishino;Naoki Isobe

  • Physics of ultra-thin phthalocyanine films on semiconductors

    Nicolas Papageorgiou;Eric Salomon;Thierry Angot;Jean-Marc Layet

  • Multilayer Silicene Nanoribbons

    Paola De Padova;Osamu Kubo;Bruno Olivieri;Claudio Quaresima

  • Atomic structures of silicene layers grown on Ag(111): scanning tunneling microscopy and noncontact atomic force microscopy observations.

    Andrea Resta;Thomas Leoni;Clemens Barth;Alain Ranguis

  • Physics of Silicene Stripes

    A. Kara;C. Léandri;M. E. Dávila;P. De Padova

  • Self-aligned silicon quantum wires on Ag(110)

    C. Leandri;G. Le Lay;B. Aufray;C. Girardeaux

  • 2D materials: Silicene transistors

    Guy Le Lay

  • Synthesis and electrical conductivity of multilayer silicene

    P. Vogt;P. Capiod;Maxime Berthe;A. Resta

  • High-Resolution Synchrotron-Radiation Core-Level Spectroscopy of Decapped Gaas(100) Surfaces

    G. Le Lay;D. Mao;Antoine Kahn;Y. Hwu

  • 24 h stability of thick multilayer silicene in air

    Paola De Padova;Carlo Ottaviani;Claudio Quaresima;Bruno Olivieri

  • sp2-like hybridization of silicon valence orbitals in silicene nanoribbons

    Paola De Padova;Claudio Quaresima;Bruno Olivieri;Paolo Perfetti

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