Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Epitaxial growth of inch-scale single-crystal transition metal dichalcogenides through the patching of unidirectionally orientated ribbons

  • Pengfei Yang,
  • Dashuai Wang,
  • Xiaoxu Zhao,
  • Wenzhi Quan,
  • Qi Jiang,
  • Xuan Li,
  • Bin Tang,
  • Jingyi Hu,
  • Lijie Zhu,
  • Shuangyuan Pan,
  • Yuping Shi,
  • Yahuan Huan,
  • Fangfang Cui,
  • Shan Qiao,
  • Qing Chen,
  • Zheng Liu,
  • Xiaolong Zou,
  • Yanfeng Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30900-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Here, the authors report the direct growth of periodic arrays of 2D semiconductor ribbons by exploiting the step edges of high-miller-index Au facets, showing potential for 2D electronic devices. The synthesized ribbons could also be merged to obtain wafer-scale single-crystal monolayers.