Electronic structure of exfoliated and epitaxial hexagonal boron nitride

Epitaxial growth of single-domain graphene on hexagonal boron nitride.

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has recently emerged as an excellent substrate for graphene nanodevices, owing to its atomically flat surface and its potential to engineer graphene's electronic structure. Thus far, graphene/h-BN heterostructures have been obtained only through a transfer process, which introduces structural uncertainties due to the random stacking between graphene and h-BN subst...

Hexagonal boron nitride epitaxial layers as neutron detector materials

Micro-strip metal–semiconductor–metal detectors for thermal neutron sensing were fabricated from hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) epilayers synthesized by metal organic chemical vapor deposition. Experimental measurements indicated that the thermal neutron absorption coefficient and length of natural hBN epilayers are about 0.00361 mm 1 and 277 mm, respectively. A continuous irradiation with a the...

Adhesion and electronic structure of graphene on hexagonal boron nitride substrates

Excellent electrical conductivity of the exfoliated and fluorinated hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets

The insulator characteristic of hexagonal boron nitride limits its applications in microelectronics. In this paper, the fluorinated hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets were prepared by doping fluorine into the boron nitride nanosheets exfoliated from the bulk boron nitride in isopropanol via a facile chemical solution method with fluoboric acid; interestingly, these boron nitride nanosheets demo...

Hexagonal boron-nitride nanomesh magnets