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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06699-7
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- STARnet center
- C-SPIN (Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces, and Novel Architectures), through the SRC (Semiconductor Research Corporation) - MARCO (Microelectronics Advanced Research Corporation)
- DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
- NSF (National Science Foundation) [DMR0958796]
- NSF through the MRSEC [DMR-0819885]
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It is of paramount importance to improve the control over large area growth of high quality molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) and other types of 2D dichalcogenides. Such atomically thin materials have great potential for use in electronics, and are thought to make possible the first real applications of spintronics. Here in, a facile and reproducible method of producing wafer scale atomically thin MoS2 layers has been developed using the incorporation of a chelating agent in a common organic solvent, dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO). Previously, solution processing of a MoS2 precursor, ammonium tetrathiomolybdate ((NH4)(2)MoS4), and subsequent thermolysis was used to produce large area MoS2 layers. Our work here shows that the use of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) in DMSO exerts superior control over wafer coverage and film thickness, and the results demonstrate that the chelating action and dispersing effect of EDTA is critical in growing uniform films. Raman spectroscopy, photoluminescence (PL), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy (HR-STEM) indicate the formation of homogenous few layer MoS2 films at the wafer scale, resulting from the novel chelant-in-solution method.
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