120th General Meeting of the KCS

Type Symposium
Area [Inorganic Chemistry - Materials Chemistry Divisions Joint Symposium] Molecules and Materials for Safe and Sustainable Future
Room No. Room 211+212+213
Time THU 15:00-:
Code IOMT-4
Subject Large-Area Growth of High Quality Hexagonal Boron Nitride Chemical Vapor Deposition and Its Applications
Authors Hyeon Suk Shin
Department of Chemistry, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Abstract Large-scale growth of high-quality hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has been a challenge in two-dimensional (2D)-material-based electronics. In this presentation, I demonstrate wafer-scale and wrinkle-free epitaxial growth of multi-layer h-BN on a sapphire substrate by using high-temperature and low-pressure chemical vapor deposition.[1] Microscopic and spectroscopic investigations and theoretical calculations reveal that synthesized h-BN has a single rotational orientation with Bernal stacking order. A facile method for transferring h-BN onto other target substrates were developed, which provides the opportunity for using h-BN as a substrate in practical electronic circuits. A graphene field effect transistor fabricated on our h-BN sheets shows highly improved carrier mobility, because the ultra-flatness of the h-BN surface can reduce the substrate-induced degradation of the carrier mobility of 2D materials. Afterwards, I show some potential applications of h-BN for a shell layer capping Au nanoparticles in surface-enhance Raman scattering [2], an encapsulation (or passivation) layer to protect unstable transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) [3], and a proton exchange membrane to replace the Nafion film in a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell.
E-mail shin@unist.ac.kr