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Title: Strongly adhesive dry transfer technique for van der Waals heterostructure

Abstract

That one can stack van der Waals materials with atomically sharp interfaces has provided a new material platform of constructing heterostructures. The technical challenge of mechanical stacking is picking up the exfoliated atomically thin materials after mechanical exfoliation without chemical and mechanical degradation. Chemically inert hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been widely used for encapsulating and picking up vdW materials. However, due to the relatively weak adhesion of hBN, assembling vdW heterostructures based on hBN has been limited. Here, we report a new dry transfer technique. We used two vdW semiconductors (ZnPS3 and CrPS4) to pick up and encapsulate layers for vdW heterostructures, which otherwise are known to be hard to fabricate. By combining with optimized polycaprolactone (PCL) providing strong adhesion, we demonstrated various vertical heterostructure devices, including quasi-2D superconducting NbSe2 Josephson junctions with atomically clean interface. The versatility of the PCL-based vdW stacking method provides a new route for assembling complex 2D vdW materials without interfacial degradation.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [1]; ORCiD logo [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [8];  [7];  [3];  [5]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Seoul National Univ. (South Korea). Center for Quantum Materials and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Inst. for Basic Science, Seoul (South Korea). Center for Correlated Electron Systems
  2. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)
  3. Seoul National Univ. (South Korea). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  4. Seoul National Univ. (South Korea). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Inst. for Basic Science, Seoul (South Korea). Center for Correlated Electron Systems
  5. Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
  6. Seoul National Univ. (South Korea). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Inst. for Basic Science, Seoul (South Korea). Center for Correlated Electron Systems; Univ. of Warwick, Coventry (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics
  7. Inst. for Basic Science, Seoul (South Korea). Center for Correlated Electron Systems; Seoul National Univ. (South Korea). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and Research Inst. of Advanced Materials
  8. Yonsei Univ., Seoul (South Korea). Dept. of Physics
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF); Inst. for Basic Science of the Republic of Korea
OSTI Identifier:
1658555
Report Number(s):
BNL-216335-2020-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2053-1583
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0012704; 2020R1A3B2079375; 2015K1A1A2033332; 2017R1A5A1014862; 2015R1A5A1037627; 2018R1A2A3075438; 2019M3E4A1080145; IBS-R009-G1
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
2D Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2053-1583
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; dry transfer technique; NbXe2; polycaprolactone; transition metal thiophosphate; two-dimensional materials; van der Waals heterostructures

Citation Formats

Son, Suhan, Shin, Young Jae, Zhang, Kaixuan, Shin, Young Jeacheol, Lee, Sungmin, Idzuchi, Hiroshi, Coak, Matthew J., Kim, Hwangsun, Kim, Jangwon, Kim, Jae Hoon, Kim, Miyoung, Kim, Dohun, Kim, Philip, and Park, Je-Geun. Strongly adhesive dry transfer technique for van der Waals heterostructure. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1088/2053-1583/abad0b.
Son, Suhan, Shin, Young Jae, Zhang, Kaixuan, Shin, Young Jeacheol, Lee, Sungmin, Idzuchi, Hiroshi, Coak, Matthew J., Kim, Hwangsun, Kim, Jangwon, Kim, Jae Hoon, Kim, Miyoung, Kim, Dohun, Kim, Philip, & Park, Je-Geun. Strongly adhesive dry transfer technique for van der Waals heterostructure. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/abad0b
Son, Suhan, Shin, Young Jae, Zhang, Kaixuan, Shin, Young Jeacheol, Lee, Sungmin, Idzuchi, Hiroshi, Coak, Matthew J., Kim, Hwangsun, Kim, Jangwon, Kim, Jae Hoon, Kim, Miyoung, Kim, Dohun, Kim, Philip, and Park, Je-Geun. Fri . "Strongly adhesive dry transfer technique for van der Waals heterostructure". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/abad0b. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1658555.
@article{osti_1658555,
title = {Strongly adhesive dry transfer technique for van der Waals heterostructure},
author = {Son, Suhan and Shin, Young Jae and Zhang, Kaixuan and Shin, Young Jeacheol and Lee, Sungmin and Idzuchi, Hiroshi and Coak, Matthew J. and Kim, Hwangsun and Kim, Jangwon and Kim, Jae Hoon and Kim, Miyoung and Kim, Dohun and Kim, Philip and Park, Je-Geun},
abstractNote = {That one can stack van der Waals materials with atomically sharp interfaces has provided a new material platform of constructing heterostructures. The technical challenge of mechanical stacking is picking up the exfoliated atomically thin materials after mechanical exfoliation without chemical and mechanical degradation. Chemically inert hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been widely used for encapsulating and picking up vdW materials. However, due to the relatively weak adhesion of hBN, assembling vdW heterostructures based on hBN has been limited. Here, we report a new dry transfer technique. We used two vdW semiconductors (ZnPS3 and CrPS4) to pick up and encapsulate layers for vdW heterostructures, which otherwise are known to be hard to fabricate. By combining with optimized polycaprolactone (PCL) providing strong adhesion, we demonstrated various vertical heterostructure devices, including quasi-2D superconducting NbSe2 Josephson junctions with atomically clean interface. The versatility of the PCL-based vdW stacking method provides a new route for assembling complex 2D vdW materials without interfacial degradation.},
doi = {10.1088/2053-1583/abad0b},
journal = {2D Materials},
number = 4,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Fri Aug 21 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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