Chemical Vapor Deposition Growth of Large Single-Crystal Mono-, Bi-, Tri-Layer Hexagonal Boron Nitride and Their Interlayer Stacking.
basic_science · Level V
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Abstract
Two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a wide bandgap material which has promising mechanical and optical properties. Here we report the realization of an initial nucleation density of h-BN <1 per mm<sup>2</sup> using low-pressure chemical vapor deposition (CVD) on polycrystalline copper. This enabled wafer-scale CVD growth of single-crystal monolayer h-BN with a lateral size up to ∼300 μm, bilayer h-BN with a lateral size up to ∼60 μm, and trilayer h-BN with a lateral size up to ∼35 μm. Based on the large single-crystal monolayer h-BN domain, the sizes of the as-grown bi- and trilayer h-BN grains are 2 orders of magnitude larger than typical h-BN multilayer domains. In addition, we achieved coalesced h-BN films with an average grain size ∼100 μm. Various flake morphologies and their interlayer stacking configurations of bi- and trilayer h-BN domains were studied. Raman signatures of mono- and multilayer h-BN were investigated side by side in the same film. It was found that the Raman peak intensity can be used as a marker for the number of layers.