Questioning van der Waals Epitaxy of Non-Layered Materials on Mica: The Case of ScN

Susmita Chowdhury, Faezeh Alijan Farzad Lahiji, Mikael Ottoson +6

Growing stress-free epitaxial films by van der Waals epitaxy (vdWE) is of interest for realizing flexible optoelectronics and energy devices from freestanding epilayers. However, v…