Direct Synthesis of van der Waals Solids

The stacking of two-dimensional layered materials, such as semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), insulating hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), and semimetallic graphene, has been theorized to produce tunable electronic and optoelectronic properties. Here we demonstrate the direct growt...

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Veröffentlicht in:ACS nano 2014-04, Vol.8 (4), p.3715-3723
Hauptverfasser: Lin, Yu-Chuan, Lu, Ning, Perea-Lopez, Nestor, Li, Jie, Lin, Zhong, Peng, Xin, Lee, Chia Hui, Sun, Ce, Calderin, Lazaro, Browning, Paul N, Bresnehan, Michael S, Kim, Moon J, Mayer, Theresa S, Terrones, Mauricio, Robinson, Joshua A
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Zusammenfassung:The stacking of two-dimensional layered materials, such as semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), insulating hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), and semimetallic graphene, has been theorized to produce tunable electronic and optoelectronic properties. Here we demonstrate the direct growth of MoS2, WSe2, and hBN on epitaxial graphene to form large-area van der Waals heterostructures. We reveal that the properties of the underlying graphene dictate properties of the heterostructures, where strain, wrinkling, and defects on the surface of graphene act as nucleation centers for lateral growth of the overlayer. Additionally, we show that the direct synthesis of TMDs on epitaxial graphene exhibits atomically sharp interfaces. Finally, we demonstrate that direct growth of MoS2 on epitaxial graphene can lead to a 103 improvement in photoresponse compared to MoS2 alone.
ISSN:1936-0851
1936-086X
DOI:10.1021/nn5003858