Enabling Methodology
Key enablers are the liquid metal catalyst technology for the seamless growth of large-area single-crystal 2D layers and radiation-mode optical microscopy for real-time monitoring of growth.
Our methodology will be further supported by atomistic simulations, molecular beam epitaxy growth and several in situ and ex situ surface analytical techniques to validate the new 2D hexagonal phases. We will leverage previous results published by consortium members on the liquid metal catalyst growth of graphene and the molecular beam epitaxy growth of hexagonal AlN on silver, to extend these methodologies to the new materials phases targeted in this project.
