Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

A universal approach for the synthesis of two-dimensional binary compounds

  • Abhay Shivayogimath,
  • Joachim Dahl Thomsen,
  • David M. A. Mackenzie,
  • Mathias Geisler,
  • Raluca-Maria Stan,
  • Ann Julie Holt,
  • Marco Bianchi,
  • Andrea Crovetto,
  • Patrick R. Whelan,
  • Alexandra Carvalho,
  • Antonio H. Castro Neto,
  • Philip Hofmann,
  • Nicolas Stenger,
  • Peter Bøggild,
  • Timothy J. Booth

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11075-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The scalable synthesis of 2D materials critically relies on finding appropriate vapour-phase metal precursors and careful fine-tuning of growth parameters. Here, the authors instead use solid elemental precursors and a single recipe to demonstrate a general approach for synthesising thin epitaxial layers of 20 different 2D binary compounds, including transition metal sulphides, selenides, tellurides, and nitrides.