Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Single-crystal two-dimensional material epitaxy on tailored non-single-crystal substrates

  • Xin Li,
  • Guilin Wu,
  • Leining Zhang,
  • Deping Huang,
  • Yunqing Li,
  • Ruiqi Zhang,
  • Meng Li,
  • Lin Zhu,
  • Jing Guo,
  • Tianlin Huang,
  • Jun Shen,
  • Xingzhan Wei,
  • Ka Man Yu,
  • Jichen Dong,
  • Michael S. Altman,
  • Rodney S. Ruoff,
  • Yinwu Duan,
  • Jie Yu,
  • Zhujun Wang,
  • Xiaoxu Huang,
  • Feng Ding,
  • Haofei Shi,
  • Wenxin Tang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29451-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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The heteroepitaxial growth of crystalline 2D materials is usually based on single-crystal substrates. Here, the authors demonstrate that single-crystal graphene and hexagonal boron nitride films can be successfully grown on wafer-scale copper foils with tailored twin boundaries.