Comment on “Experimental Evidence for a New Two-Dimensional Honeycomb Phase of Silicon: A Missing Link in the Chemistry and Physics of Silicon Surfaces?”

Reply to the “Comment on ‘Experimental Evidence for a New Two-Dimensional Honeycomb Phase of Silicon: A Missing Link in the Chemistry and Physics of Silicon Surfaces?’”

“…The comment by R. A. Zhachuk and J. Coutinho, reports detailed Density Functional Theory, DFT, calculations performed for an idealized DFA model proposed recently by Demuth . This model was introduced to account for numerous inconsistencies and paradoxes between experimental measurements and the resulting predictions of DFT calculations.…”

“…Thus, the statement that “‘evidence for a new two-dimensional honeycomb phase of silicon’ lacks physical support” is not accurate. It is fair to say that these particular DFT calculations do not support a π-bonded DFA structure.…”