Surface-energy-assisted perfect transfer of centimeter-scale monolayer and few-layer MoS2 films onto arbitrary substrates

ACS Nano

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 11522-11528

  Gurarslan, Alper ^a,b   Yu, Yifei ^a   Su, Liqin ^c   Yu, Yiling ^b   Suarez, Francisco ^a   Yao, Shanshan ^a   Zhu, Yong ^a   Ozturk, Mehmet ^a   Zhang, Yong ^c   Cao, Linyou ^a,b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

2D materials; Large scale; Molybdenum disulfide; Surface energy; Tungsten disulfide

Indexed keywords

ESTERS; ETCHING; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; MONOLAYERS; SUBSTRATES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TUNGSTEN COMPOUNDS;

CHEMICAL ETCHANTS; GROWTH MECHANISMS; GROWTH SUBSTRATES; HOT BASE SOLUTIONS; LARGE SCALE; MOLYBDENUM DISULFIDE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE) (PMMA); TUNGSTEN DISULFIDE;

POLYMER FILMS;

EID: 84912571750     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn5057673     Document Type: Article

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