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Project Summary: Invited book chapter in “Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology”, ScienceDirect/Elsevier
2D semiconductors exhibiting strongly anisotropic properties and non-trivial topological phenomena offer new material opportunities to find solutions for the energy crisis and global warming. Re-discovered after a lot of work nearly four decades ago, renewed research efforts fueled by recent advances in thin film growth technology are directed towards accelerating 2D materials’ discovery, facilitating their synthesis, and studying their intrinsic properties. This chapter summarizes pursued synthesis approaches and the resulting materials properties of the three most common materials’ classes among the 2D van der Waals layered semiconductors and topological insulators; post transition metal monochalcogenides, transition metal dichalcogenides, and Bi/Sb-based sesquichalcogenides.
Publication: Maria Hilse, Nicholas Trainor, Andrew R. Graves, Run Xiao, Max Stanley, Yongxi Ou, Derrick Shao Heng Liu, Roman Engel-Herbert, Anthony Richardella, Stephanie Law, and Joan M. Redwing (2025). Comprehensive Semiconductor Science and Technology,2nd Edition, Elsevier, Pages 329-375, ISBN 9780323958196.
Publication: 10.1016/B978-0-323-96027-4.00031-0
2DCC Role:This book chapter is a comprehensive overview of the broad experience gained at the 2DCC on the growth of 2D semiconductors and topological insulators.