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Remote epitaxial interaction through graphene

2023; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 9; Issue: 42 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/sciadv.adj5379

2375-2548

Celesta S. Chang, Ki Seok Kim, Bo‐In Park, Joonghoon Choi, Hyunseok Kim, Junseok Jeong, Matthew R. Barone, Nicholas Parker, Sangho Lee, Xinyuan Zhang, Kuangye Lu, Jun Min Suh, Jekyung Kim, Doyoon Lee, Ne Myo Han, Mingi Moon, Yun Seog Lee, Dong‐Hwan Kim, Darrell G. Schlom, Young Joon Hong, Jeehwan Kim,

Nanowire Synthesis and Applications

The concept of remote epitaxy involves a two-dimensional van der Waals layer covering the substrate surface, which still enable adatoms to follow the atomic motif of the underlying substrate. The mode of growth must be carefully defined as defects, e.g., pinholes, in two-dimensional materials can allow direct epitaxy from the substrate, which, in combination with lateral epitaxial overgrowth, could also form an epilayer. Here, we show several unique cases that can only be observed for remote epitaxy, distinguishable from other two-dimensional material-based epitaxy mechanisms. We first grow BaTiO3 on patterned graphene to establish a condition for minimizing epitaxial lateral overgrowth. By observing entire nanometer-scale nuclei grown aligned to the substrate on pinhole-free graphene confirmed by high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy, we visually confirm that remote epitaxy is operative at the atomic scale. Macroscopically, we also show variations in the density of GaN microcrystal arrays that depend on the ionicity of substrates and the number of graphene layers.