Microscopic mechanism of van der Waals heteroepitaxy in the formation of MoS2/hBN vertical heterostructures
arXiv:2004.13260 · doi:10.1021/acsomega.0c04168
Abstract
Recent works have revealed that van der Waals (vdW) epitaxial growth of 2D materials on crystalline substrates, such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), leads to formation of self-aligned grains, which results in defect-free stitching between the grains. However, how the weak vdW interaction causes strong limitation on orientation of grains is still not understood yet. In this work, we have focused on investigation of mechanism of self-alignment of MoS2 grains in vdW epitaxial growth on hBN. Through calculation based on density functional theory and the Lennard-Jones potential, we found that interaction energy between MoS2 and hBN strongly depends both on size and orientation of MoS2. We also found that, when size of MoS2 is ca. 40 nm, rotational energy barrier can exceed ~ 1 eV, which should suppress rotation to limit orientation of MoS2 even at growth temperature.
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