Jinkyoung Yoo
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Emerging nanomaterials have attracted much attention due to their novel functionalities, but have also been hindered by lack of scalable synthesis and of ways of controlling characteristics. Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials are good examples of novel materials set promising exotic properties and requiring established manufacturing approaches for practical applications. Heterostructuring is a powerful and general strategy to control physical properties of materials. Moreover, heterostructuring can offer novel characteristics differentiating the heterostructure from individual component in a structure. Recently, 2D/2D heterostructures prepared by stacking are being explored to observe quantum phenomena. However, fabrication of 2D/2D heterostructures has been limited by difficulty in preparation of individual 2D layers in controlled manner. Heterostructuring with 2D and conventional materials in other dimensions (e.g. bulk-like structure for 3D and nanowires for 1D) has shown great potential for multi-dimensional heterostructures. In this presentation I’ll discuss how to prepare multi-dimensional heterostructures composed of 2D and conventional materials. The experimental approach is epitaxial growth Si, Ge, and ZnO on various 2D materials including graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, transition metal dichalcogenides. Absence of surface dangling bonds on a 2D material provides an unique opportunity to overcome materials compatibility issues. Nucleation strategy and novel characteristics of multi-dimensional heterostructures will be discussed in detail.