Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Controllable growth of triangular hexagonal boron nitride domains on copper foils by an improved low-pressure chemical vapor deposition method

Ning Guo, Jinquan Wei, Lili Fan, Yi Jia, Dayao Liang, Hongwei Zhu, Kunlin Wang and Dehai Wu



We demonstrate an improved low-pressure chemical vapor deposition method to fabricate hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) domains of a few layers (one–four layers) from ammonia borane by adding a small quartz tube to stabilize the gas flow over the copper substrate and reducing the growing rate of h-BN. The h-BN grows freely and spontaneously to form triangular domains on the Cu (100) plane. The triangular domains are prone to be parallel to each other on the copper substrate. The h-BN domains grow by extending in the normal direction of the triangle and form a large thin film by joining together. Both the size and coverage rate on Cu foils are well controlled by tuning the amount of ammonia borane.



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