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Cleaning interfaces in layered materials heterostructures.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Purdie, DG 
Pugno, NM 
Taniguchi, T 
Ferrari, AC 

Abstract

Heterostructures formed by stacking layered materials require atomically clean interfaces. However, contaminants are usually trapped between the layers, aggregating into randomly located blisters, incompatible with scalable fabrication processes. Here we report a process to remove blisters from fully formed heterostructures. Our method is over an order of magnitude faster than those previously reported and allows multiple interfaces to be cleaned simultaneously. We fabricate blister-free regions of graphene encapsulated in hexagonal boron nitride with an area ~ 5000 μm2, achieving mobilities up to 180,000 cm2 V-1 s-1 at room temperature, and 1.8 × 106 cm2 V-1 s-1 at 9 K. We also assemble heterostructures using graphene intentionally exposed to polymers and solvents. After cleaning, these samples reach similar mobilities. This demonstrates that exposure of graphene to process-related contaminants is compatible with the realization of high mobility samples, paving the way to the development of wafer-scale processes for the integration of layered materials in (opto)electronic devices.

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Keywords

cond-mat.mes-hall, cond-mat.mes-hall

Journal Title

Nat Commun

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Journal ISSN

2041-1723
2041-1723

Volume Title

9

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Sponsorship
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K01711X/1)
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) (696656)
Royal Society (TG102524)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/K017144/1)
European Commission (604391)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/L016087/1)
EPSRC (via University of Manchester) (R119256)
Royal Society of Chemistry (unknown)
European Commission Horizon 2020 (H2020) Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) (785219)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/G042357/1)
The Royal Society (wm090070)
Isaac Newton Trust (1135(N))
European Commission (246026)
European Research Council (319277)
European Commission (314578)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/P02081X/1)
European Commission (264694)
European Commission (309980)
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EP/M507799/1)