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Semiconductors grown large and thin

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Atomically thin layers of semiconductors called transition-metal dichalcogenides have been grown uniformly on the square-centimetre scale — paving the way for the ultimate miniaturization of electronic applications. See Letter p.656

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Figure 1: Large-area growth of atomically thin, layered semiconductors.

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