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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08468-8
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- National Nature Science Foundation [11704159, 61404061, 61422503]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province, China [BK20170167, BK20140168]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China [JUSRP51726B]
- 111 Project [B12018]
- Australian Research Council (ARC)
- CSIRO's Science Leaders Program
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Epitaxial growth of atomically thin two-dimensional crystals such as transition metal dichalcogenides remains challenging, especially for producing large-size transition metal dichalcogenides bilayer crystals featuring high density of states, carrier mobility and stability at room temperature. Here we achieve in epitaxial growth of the second monolayer from the first monolayer by reverse-flow chemical vapor epitaxy and produce high-quality, large-size transition metal dichalcogenides bilayer crystals with high yield, control, and reliability. Customized temperature profiles and reverse gas flow help activate the first layer without introducing new nucleation centers leading to near-defect-free epitaxial growth of the second layer from the existing nucleation centers. A series of bilayer crystals including MoS2 and WS2, ternary Mo1-xWxS2 and quaternary Mo1-xWxS2(1-y)Se2y are synthesized with variable structural configurations and tunable electronic and optical properties. The robust, potentially universal approach for the synthesis of large-size transition metal dichalcogenides bilayer single crystals is highly-promising for fundamental studies and technological applications.
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