Journal
ACS NANO
Volume 13, Issue 6, Pages 7083-7090Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b02377
Keywords
hexagonal boron nitride; Pt(110); 2D materials; epitaxy; chemical vapor deposition; scanning tunneling microscopy; density functional theory
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- Universitat Innsbruck
- Austrian Science Fund (FIAT) [F45]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [F45] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
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Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) monolayers were grown on Pt(110) using borazine as a precursor molecule. The resulting surface structure was studied by scanning tunneling microscopy, low-energy electron diffraction, and density functional theory calculations. Borazine fragments reduce the roughening temperature of pristine Pt(110) (T-r = 1090 K); consequently, growth below T = 1100 K results in a serrated h-BN/Pt(110) surface with small terraces, defects, and domain boundaries. Surprisingly, h-BN deposition at T > 1100 K yields large terraces covered by a carpet-like single-domain h-BN monolayer. Despite the incommensurability and different symmetry, the epitaxial growth is almost perfect. The key to this counterintuitive behavior is the soft Pt(110) surface responding to the h-BN overlayer in two ways: First, the (1 x 2)-missing-row (m.r.) reconstruction is converted into a (1 x n)-m.r. reconstruction with a regular alternation of n = 5 and 6, yielding a superperiodicity of the Moire pattern. Second, the remaining rows experience significant relaxations. Some Pt surface atoms are mobile underneath the h-BN monolayer, even at room temperature. Under growth conditions, the top metal layer is disordered and highly mobile, rendering the h-BN growth comparable to that on liquid gold. Such a mechanism may be of general relevance for the epitaxial growth of 2D materials. Because epitaxial deposition of Pt(110) on various substrates has been demonstrated, the present system appears scalable, and its regular 1D grooves render it a promising template for nanowire arrays.
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