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2D SINGLE-CRYSTALS

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Heteroepitaxial growth of single-crystal films typically requires stringent matching of the specific lattice ordering with the underlying substrate. Now, amorphous MoTe2 thin films are shown to transform into wafer-scale 2D single-crystals through seeded growth on the surface of any arbitrary substrate.

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Fig. 1: Controlled phase transition for growth of wafer-scale single-crystals of semiconducting 2H-MoTe2.

panel b is adapted from ref. 9 and panel c is adapted from ref. 10, Springer Nature Ltd.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Huaying Ren & Yu Huang

  2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Huaying Ren & Xiangfeng Duan

  3. California NanoSystems Institute, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Xiangfeng Duan & Yu Huang

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