Three-Leaf Dart-Shaped Single-Crystal BN Formation Promoted by Surface Oxygen

Hui Yang; Jin Yang; Xibiao Ren; Haiyuan Chen; Chennupati Jagadish; Guang-Can Guo; Chuanhong Jin; Xiaobin Niu; Guo-Ping Guo

doi:10.1063/1.5041462

Three-Leaf Dart-Shaped Single-Crystal BN Formation Promoted by Surface Oxygen

Materials Science 2018-11-14 v1

Authors: Hui Yang , Jin Yang , Xibiao Ren , Haiyuan Chen , Chennupati Jagadish , Guang-Can Guo , Chuanhong Jin , Xiaobin Niu , Guo-Ping Guo

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Abstract

Two-dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) single crystals with various shapes have been synthesized by chemical vapor deposition over the past several years. Here we report the formation of three-leaf dart (3LD)-shaped single crystals of h-BN on Cu foil by atmospheric-pressure chemical vapor deposition. The leaves of the 3LD-shaped h-BN are as long as 18 {\mu}m and their edges are smooth armchair on one side and stepped armchair on the other. Careful analysis revealed that surface oxygen plays an important role in the formation of the 3LD shape. Oxygen suppressed h-BN nucleation by passivating Cu surface active sites and lowered the edge attachment energy, which caused the growth kinetics to change to a diffusion-controlled mode.

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@article{arxiv.1810.00343,
  title  = {Three-Leaf Dart-Shaped Single-Crystal BN Formation Promoted by Surface Oxygen},
  author = {Hui Yang and Jin Yang and Xibiao Ren and Haiyuan Chen and Chennupati Jagadish and Guang-Can Guo and Chuanhong Jin and Xiaobin Niu and Guo-Ping Guo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.00343},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Three-Leaf Dart-Shaped Single-Crystal BN Formation Promoted by Surface Oxygen

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