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Vertical Heterostructures of Layered Metal Chalcogenides by van der Waals Epitaxy Xingwang Zhang,†,‡ Fei Meng,† Jeffrey R. Christianson,† Christian Arroyo-Torres,† Mark A. Lukowski,† Dong Liang,† J. R. Schmidt,† and Song Jin*,† †
Department of Chemistry, University of WisconsinMadison, 1101 University Avenue, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States Key Laboratory of Biomass Chemical Engineering of Ministry of Education, Department of Chemical Engineering and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province 310027, China
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ABSTRACT: We report a facile chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of vertical heterostructures of layered metal dichalcogenides (MX2) enabled by van der Waals epitaxy. Few layers of MoS2, WS2, and WSe2 were grown uniformly onto microplates of SnS2 under mild CVD reaction conditions (