Direct growth of hexagonal boron nitride on non-metallic substrates and its heterostructures with graphene

Summary: Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and its heterostructures with graphene are widely investigated van der Waals (vdW) quantum materials for electronics, photonics, sensing, and energy storage/transduction. However, their metal catalyst-based growth and transfer-based heterostructure assembly ap...

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Autores principales: Isaac G. Juma, Gwangwoo Kim, Deep Jariwala, Sanjay K. Behura
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Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Sumario:Summary: Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and its heterostructures with graphene are widely investigated van der Waals (vdW) quantum materials for electronics, photonics, sensing, and energy storage/transduction. However, their metal catalyst-based growth and transfer-based heterostructure assembly approaches present impediments to obtaining high-quality and wafer-scale quantum material. Here, we have presented our perspective on the synthetic strategies that involve direct nucleation of h-BN on various dielectric substrates and its heterostructures with graphene. Mechanistic understanding of direct growth of h-BN via bottom-up approaches such as (a) the chemical-interaction guided nucleation on silicon-based dielectrics, (b) surface nitridation and N+ sputtering of h-BN target on sapphire, and (c) epitaxial growth of h-BN on sapphire, among others, are reviewed. Several design methodologies are presented for the direct growth of vertical and lateral vdW heterostructures of h-BN and graphene. These complex 2D heterostructures exhibit various physical phenomena and could potentially have a range of practical applications.