Silicon rebirth: Metallic prismane allotropes of silicon for the next-gen technologies

Konstantin Katin, Konstantin Grishakov, Margarita Gimaldinova +1

We report the prediction of metallic quasione-dimensional $s{p}^3$-hybridized silicon allotropes in the form of prismanes. Silicon prismanes or polysilaprismanes are the silicon na…