Chemistry of Germanium

Organometallic chemistry on silicon and germanium surfaces.

Superconductivity and unexpected chemistry of germanium hydrides under pressure

M. Mahdi Davari Esfahani,1 Artem R. Oganov,1, 2, 3, 4, ∗ Haiyang Niu,1 and Jin Zhang1 Department of Geosciences, Center for Materials by Design, and Institute for Advanced Computational Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794-2100, USA Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Center, 3 Nobel St., Moscow 143026, Russia Department of Problems of Physi...

Isomers in the Chemistry of Germanium Coordination Compounds

The coordination chemistry of germanium covers quite bulk fields, as shown by a survey covering the crystallographic and structural data of over two hundred examples. About ten percent of those complexes exist as distortion isomers and are summarised. These are discussed in terms of the coordination around the germanium(I), germanium(II) and germanium(IV) atoms, and correlations are drawn betwe...

Isomers in the Chemistry of Germanium Heterometallic Clusters

Sixteen isomers of heterometallic germanium clusters have been analysed in this review. There are two types of isomerism, distortion (x 15) and cis – trans (x 1) and cis – isomer contains two crystallographically independent molecules. Distortion isomers, differing only by degree of distortion in Ge – L, Ge – M (M = metal) distances and L – Ge L (L = ligand) angles. The data are discussed with ...

Surface chemistry and electrical properties of germanium nanowires.

Germanium nanowires (GeNWs) with p- and n-dopants were synthesized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) and were used to construct complementary field-effect transistors (FETs). Electrical transport and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) data are correlated to glean the effects of Ge surface chemistry to the electrical characteristics of GeNWs. Large hysteresis due to water molecules strongly...