Dual-Limit Growth of Large-Area Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides.

ACS Nano

State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People's Republic of China.

Published: March 2024

The large-scale growth of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) films is a determinant for the implementation of two-dimensional materials in industrial applications. However, the simultaneous realization of uniform monolayer thickness and large-area coverage is still a challenge, because it requires precise control of reaction kinetics in both space and time dimensions. Herein, we achieve a variety of large-area monolayer TMDCs films by a dual-limit growth (DLG) that is realized through nanoporous carbon nanotube (CNT) films. In the DLG, a precursor-loaded CNT film placed face-to-face with a substrate provides a space-limited environment facilitating the monolayer growth, while the byproducts formed in the CNT film timely limits the supply of precursors released from nanopores of the CNT film, inhibiting the growth of multilayer TMDCs on the substrate. Consequently, large-area monolayer TMDC films are grown in a wide range of reaction times and show good homogeneity in thickness, optical properties, and device performance over the entire substrate. The DLG strategy is widely applicable for the growth of a variety of TMDC films including WSe, MoS, MoSe, WS, and ReS. Our work provides a universal strategy to attain large-area monolayer TMDC films that can be used in practical applications of integrated circuits.

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