Nature Communications (Feb 2020)

Vapor–liquid–solid growth of large-area multilayer hexagonal boron nitride on dielectric substrates

  • Zhiyuan Shi,
  • Xiujun Wang,
  • Qingtian Li,
  • Peng Yang,
  • Guangyuan Lu,
  • Ren Jiang,
  • Huishan Wang,
  • Chao Zhang,
  • Chunxiao Cong,
  • Zhi Liu,
  • Tianru Wu,
  • Haomin Wang,
  • Qingkai Yu,
  • Xiaoming Xie

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14596-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Multilayer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a desirable dielectric substrate for 2D electronics but its controllable synthesis is challenging. Here, the authors report a vapor–liquid–solid growth method to achieve uniform multilayer hBN by using a molten Fe82B18 alloy and N2 as reactants.