Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Low-defect-density WS2 by hydroxide vapor phase deposition

  • Yi Wan,
  • En Li,
  • Zhihao Yu,
  • Jing-Kai Huang,
  • Ming-Yang Li,
  • Ang-Sheng Chou,
  • Yi-Te Lee,
  • Chien-Ju Lee,
  • Hung-Chang Hsu,
  • Qin Zhan,
  • Areej Aljarb,
  • Jui-Han Fu,
  • Shao-Pin Chiu,
  • Xinran Wang,
  • Juhn-Jong Lin,
  • Ya-Ping Chiu,
  • Wen-Hao Chang,
  • Han Wang,
  • Yumeng Shi,
  • Nian Lin,
  • Yingchun Cheng,
  • Vincent Tung,
  • Lain-Jong Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31886-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Chemical vapor deposition enables the scalable production of 2D semiconductors, but the grown materials are usually affected by high defect densities. Here, the authors report a hydroxide vapour phase deposition method to synthesize wafer-scale monolayer WS2 with reduced defect density and electrical properties comparable to those of exfoliated flakes.