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Recent Advances in Epitaxial Growth: Materials and Methods

A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Inorganic Chemistry".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2024 | Viewed by 1258

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Department of Chemistry and Graduate Center for Materials Research, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409-1170, USA
Interests: epitaxy; lattice mismatch; lattice strain/expansion; remote epitaxy; single crystalline film; rotational twinning; interfacial energy; crystalline order; van-der Waals epitaxy
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Materials Research Center (MRC), Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla, MO 65409-1170, USA
Interests: epitaxy; lattice mismatch; lattice strain/expansion; remote epitaxy; single crystalline film; rotational twinning; interfacial energy; crystalline order; van-der Waals epitaxy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Epitaxial growth is an emerging technique for the production of single crystals, free-standing thin films and structures. Growing epitaxial films has been a growing interest in the field of semiconductor materials research. The method can epitaxially grow a two-dimensional material on the interface of a two-dimensional material layer. Although the principle of epitaxial growth reaction is simple, it is usually difficult to realize due to its strict requirements on sample preparation and process methods.

This Special Issue focuses on the development of advanced methods for epitaxial growth. Both original research articles and comprehensive review articles are welcome. All manuscripts will follow standard journal peer-review practices, and those accepted for publication will appear in this Special Issue.

Dr. Avishek Banik
Dr. Eric Bohannan
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • epitaxy
  • lattice mismatch
  • remote epitaxy
  • single crystalline film
  • rotational twinning
  • interfacial energy
  • crystalline order
  • van-der waals epitaxy

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The Stability Prediction and Epitaxial Growth of Boron Nitride Nanodots on Different Substrates
by Muhamad Jalu Purnomo, Yosi Febrita, Okto Dinaryanto, Wojciech Gierlotka and Ing-Song Yu
Molecules 2024, 29(6), 1313; https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules29061313 - 15 Mar 2024
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Boron nitride (BN) is a wide-bandgap material for various applications in modern nanotechnologies. In the technology of material science, computational calculations are prerequisites for experimental works, enabling precise property prediction and guidance. First-principles methods such as density functional theory (DFT) are capable of [...] Read more.
Boron nitride (BN) is a wide-bandgap material for various applications in modern nanotechnologies. In the technology of material science, computational calculations are prerequisites for experimental works, enabling precise property prediction and guidance. First-principles methods such as density functional theory (DFT) are capable of capturing the accurate physical properties of materials. However, they are limited to very small nanoparticle sizes (<2 nm in diameter) due to their computational costs. In this study, we present, for the first time, an important computational approach to DFT calculations for BN materials deposited on different substrates. In particular, we predict the total energy and cohesive energy of a variety of face-centered cubic (FCC) and hexagonal close-packed (HCP) boron nitrides on different substrates (Ni, MoS2, and Al2O3). Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is the most stable phase according to our DFT calculation of cohesive energy. Moreover, an experimental validation equipped with a molecular beam epitaxy system for the epitaxial growth of h-BN nanodots on Ni and MoS2 substrates is proposed to confirm the results of the DFT calculations in this report. Full article
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