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ArticleSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2026

Wafer-Scale Self-Limiting Epitaxy of Bernal-Stacked Single-Crystal Boron Nitride.

Jaewon Wang, Hyeonwoo Lee, Jaemin Kim, Haeng Un Yeo, Cheol Hwan Yoon, Min Seok Yoo, Junseop Noh, Sora Jang, Ju-Hyoung Han, Juwon Han and 13 more

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23 authors.

Jaewon WangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9224-6160
Hyeonwoo LeeDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3701-6091
Jaemin KimCenter for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.
Haeng Un YeoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8339-8152
Cheol Hwan YoonDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0310-8049
Min Seok Yoo2D Device Laboratory, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Suwon, Republic of Korea.
Junseop NohDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2703-9826
Sora JangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0812-9602
Ju-Hyoung HanDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.
Juwon HanDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0846-6301
Jaeeun ParkDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.
Young Ho JinDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-6466-6374
Huijun HanDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9614-840X
Kitae ParkDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1786-0368
Joonki SuhDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0221-8447
Tae-Sik YoonDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1861-3537
Seunguk SongDepartment of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7075-9704
Minsu Seol2D Device Laboratory, Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Suwon, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8920-6181
Chanyong HwangQuantum Technology Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6612-7552
Hyung-Joon ShinDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6750-118X
Zonghoon LeeCenter for Multidimensional Carbon Materials (CMCM), Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3246-4072
Changwook JeongDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3962-7153
Soon-Yong KwonDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering and Graduate School of Semiconductor Materials and Devices Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, Republic of Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2432-0418

Funding

Institute of Basic Science IBS-R019-G1Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) P0023703Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology (KIAT) RS-2023-00231956Ministry of Science and ICT 2021R1A2C2094674Ministry of Science and ICT RS-2023-00218908Ministry of Science and ICT RS-2023-00257666Ministry of Science and ICT RS-2024-00408180Samsung Electronics IO250114-11738-02Samsung Research Funding & Incubating Center for Future Technology SRFC-IT2502-01UNIST 1.230063.01UNIST 1.260003.01
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-centrosymmetric stacking in boron nitride (BN) enables out-of-plane polarization, offering a route toward 2D dielectrics with embedded nonvolatile functionality. However, achieving uniform, wafer-scale growth of metastable Bernal-stacked BN (bBN) remains challenging, as it requires breaking interlayer inversion symmetry. Here, we demonstrate the wafer-scale epitaxial growth of single-crystal bBN bilayers on Ni(111)/sapphire substrates using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition. By employing a flow-modulation epitaxy approach, we enhanced surface reaction kinetics while suppressing secondary nucleation, thereby enabling self-limiting growth of uniform bilayer bBN films. Monoatomic Ni step edges deterministically enforced the AB stacking order, energetically stabilizing the bilayer configuration by lifting the degeneracy of competing stacking orientations, as confirmed by atomic-resolution imaging and density functional theory calculations. The resulting bBN films served as atomically thin dielectric interlayers in top-gated molybdenum disulfide (MoS

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2D dielectric integrationBernal‐stacked boron nitride (bBN)metastable epitaxyself‐limiting growthstep‐edge engineeringwafer‐scale growth

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PMID41834329
PMCPMC13155038

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