# Clean assembly of van der Waals heterostructures using silicon nitride membranes

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## First published url

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-023-01075-y

## Date published

2023-12-05

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## Title

- title: Clean assembly of van der Waals heterostructures using silicon nitride membranes
  title_type: original
  lang: en

## Description

- description: Layer-by-layer assembly of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures underpins
    new discoveries in solid state physics, material science and chemistry. Despite
    the successes, all current 2D material (2DM) transfer techniques rely on the use
    of polymers which limits the cleanliness, ultimate electronic performance, and
    their potential for optoelectronic applications of the heterostructures. In this
    letter, we present a novel polymer-free platform for rapid and facile heterostructure
    assembly which utilises flexible silicon nitride membranes. Our technology allows
    for vdW heterostructure assembly at high temperatures >600°C, various solvents
    and in ultra-high vacuum (UHV), making it suitable for industrial scale-up. We
    demonstrate that this allows the production of 2D heterostructures with perfect
    interfaces free from interlayer contamination and correspondingly excellent electronic
    behaviour. The UHV transfer synthesis approach employed here for the first time,
    can reliably create graphene moiré superlattices with over an order of magnitude
    improvement in their structural homogeneity. This technology opens up a potential
    avenue for industry-compatible manufacturing of vdW heterostructures.
  description_type: abstract
  lang: und

## Creator

- name: Wendong Wang
  role: author
- name: Nicholas Clark
  role: author
- name: Matthew Hamer
  role: author
- name: Amy Carl
  role: author
- name: Endre Tovari
  role: author
- name: Sam Sullivan-Allsop
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- name: Evan Tillotson
  role: author
- name: Yunze Gao
  role: author
- name: Hugo de Latour
  role: author
- name: Francisco Selles
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- name: James Howarth
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- name: Eli G. Castanon
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- name: Mingwei Zhou
  role: author
- name: Haoyu Bai
  role: author
- name: Xiao Li
  role: author
- name: Astrid Weston
  role: author
- name: Kenji Watanabe
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3701-8119
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
  ror: https://ror.org/026v1ze26
- name: Takashi Taniguchi
  role: author
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1467-3105
  organization: National Institute for Materials Science
  ror: https://ror.org/026v1ze26
- name: Cecilia Mattevi
  role: author
- name: Thomas H. Bointon
  role: author
- name: Paul V. Wiper
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- name: Andrew J. Strudwick
  role: author
- name: Leonid A. Ponomarenko
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- name: Andrey V. Kretinin
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- name: Sarah J. Haigh
  role: author
- name: Alex Summerfield
  role: author
- name: Roman Gorbachev
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organization: Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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## Keyword

- subject: Van der Waals heterostructures
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- subject: polymer-free technique
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- subject: twisted-graphene
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- identifier: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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## Journal

- title: Nature Electronics
  issn: '25201131'
  volume: '6'
  issue: '12'
  start_page: 981
  end_page: 990

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