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Growing single-crystalline antimony oxide with van der Waals epitaxy

Atomically thin single-crystalline high-κ dielectrics can be grown directly on a two-dimensional semiconductor by van der Waals epitaxy, providing ultrathin gate stacks with excellent interface quality.

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Fig. 1: van der Waals epitaxial growth of atomically thin single-crystalline Sb2O3 and its dielectric and device properties.

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Shin, HJ. Growing single-crystalline antimony oxide with van der Waals epitaxy. Nat Electron (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-026-01589-1

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