Extended Data Fig. 1: Setup used for vdW-molding and process for preparing samples for vdW-molding. | Nature Materials

Extended Data Fig. 1: Setup used for vdW-molding and process for preparing samples for vdW-molding.

From: Exceptional electronic transport and quantum oscillations in thin bismuth crystals grown inside van der Waals materials

Extended Data Fig. 1

a, Photo of the microsqueezing setup. b, Diagram of the microsqueezing setup with inset of the sample stack. Setup is designed to keep the top and bottom substrates parallel during squeezing while minimizing shear forces. c-e, Diagram and optical sample image of each step to make a bismuth-hBN stack: c, transfer of bottom hBN flake onto substrate, d, transfer of starting bismuth flake on the bottom hBN, e, encapsulating bismuth with top hBN flake.

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