Wang Ye

Resolving the interfacial mechanical landscape of monolayer NbSe2 grown by confined epitaxy

Confined epitaxy has recently emerged as a novel methodology for controlled growth of high-quality monolayer two-dimensional (2D) materials. However, mechanistic understanding remains limited to analysing nucleus adsorption and diffusion barriers. Here, I discover that van der Waals (vdW) confinement not only affects t...