Chemical Vapor Deposition of Two-Dimensional Crystals

Handbook of Crystal Growth: Thin Films and Epitaxy: Second Edition

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 785-833

  Robinson, Zachary R ^a   Schmucker, Scott W ^a   McCreary, Kathleen M ^a   Cobas, Enrique D ^a  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical vapor deposition; Epitaxial growth; Graphene; Hexagonal boron nitride; Transition metal dichalcogenides; Two dimensional growth

Indexed keywords

BORON NITRIDE; EPITAXIAL GROWTH; GRAPHENE; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; LAYERED SEMICONDUCTORS; MOLYBDENUM COMPOUNDS; NITRIDES; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; TRANSITION METALS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITIONS (CVD); CRYSTAL GROWTH PROCESS; HEXAGONAL BORON NITRIDE; HIGH-QUALITY MATERIALS; TRANSITION METAL DICHALCOGENIDES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CRYSTALS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL GROWTH; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS;

CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION;

EID: 84943568447     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-63304-0.00019-6     Document Type: Chapter

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