Surface-Confined Two-Dimensional Crystal Growth on a Monolayer

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Main Authors: Jia, Yanyu, Yuan, Fang, Cheng, Guangming, Tang, Yue, Yu, Guo, Song, Tiancheng, Wang, Pengjie, Singha, Ratnadwip, Uzan, Ayelet July, Onyszczak, Michael, Watanabe, Kenji, Taniguchi, Takashi, Yao, Nan, Schoop, Leslie M, Wu, Sanfeng
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author Jia, Yanyu
Yuan, Fang
Cheng, Guangming
Tang, Yue
Yu, Guo
Song, Tiancheng
Wang, Pengjie
Singha, Ratnadwip
Uzan, Ayelet July
Onyszczak, Michael
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Yao, Nan
Schoop, Leslie M
Wu, Sanfeng
author_facet Jia, Yanyu
Yuan, Fang
Cheng, Guangming
Tang, Yue
Yu, Guo
Song, Tiancheng
Wang, Pengjie
Singha, Ratnadwip
Uzan, Ayelet July
Onyszczak, Michael
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Yao, Nan
Schoop, Leslie M
Wu, Sanfeng
contents Conventional vapor deposition or epitaxial growth of two-dimensional (2D) materials and heterostructures is conducted in a large chamber in which masses transport from the source to the substrate. Here we report a chamber-free, on-chip approach for growing a 2D crystalline structures directly in a nanoscale surface-confined 2D space. The method is based on a surprising discovery of a rapid, long-distance, non-Fickian transport of a uniform layer of atomically thin palladium (Pd) on a monolayer crystal of tungsten ditelluride (WTe2), at temperatures well below the known melting points of all materials involved. The resulting nanoconfined growth realizes a controlled formation of a stable new 2D crystalline material, Pd7WTe2 , when the monolayer seed is either free-standing or fully encapsulated in a van der Waals stack. The approach is generalizable and highly compatible with nanodevice fabrication, promising to expand the library of 2D materials and their functionalities.
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spellingShingle Surface-Confined Two-Dimensional Crystal Growth on a Monolayer
Jia, Yanyu
Yuan, Fang
Cheng, Guangming
Tang, Yue
Yu, Guo
Song, Tiancheng
Wang, Pengjie
Singha, Ratnadwip
Uzan, Ayelet July
Onyszczak, Michael
Watanabe, Kenji
Taniguchi, Takashi
Yao, Nan
Schoop, Leslie M
Wu, Sanfeng
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
Conventional vapor deposition or epitaxial growth of two-dimensional (2D) materials and heterostructures is conducted in a large chamber in which masses transport from the source to the substrate. Here we report a chamber-free, on-chip approach for growing a 2D crystalline structures directly in a nanoscale surface-confined 2D space. The method is based on a surprising discovery of a rapid, long-distance, non-Fickian transport of a uniform layer of atomically thin palladium (Pd) on a monolayer crystal of tungsten ditelluride (WTe2), at temperatures well below the known melting points of all materials involved. The resulting nanoconfined growth realizes a controlled formation of a stable new 2D crystalline material, Pd7WTe2 , when the monolayer seed is either free-standing or fully encapsulated in a van der Waals stack. The approach is generalizable and highly compatible with nanodevice fabrication, promising to expand the library of 2D materials and their functionalities.
title Surface-Confined Two-Dimensional Crystal Growth on a Monolayer
topic Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06477