title: Growth of Polar Hexagonal Boron Nitride Monolayer on Nonpolar Copper with Unique Orientation.
abstract: Suppressing the oppositely orientated hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) domains during the growth is of great challenge due to its bipolar structure. It is found that h-BN domains grown on onefold symmetric Cu(102) or (103) share a unique orientation, with one zigzag edge of the h-BN triangles perpendicular to the symmetry axis of the substrate surface.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education and Institute of Nanoscience, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China.
authors.forename: Jidong
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education and Institute of Nanoscience, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China.
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education and Institute of Nanoscience, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China.
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
authors.forename: Xibiao
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education and Institute of Nanoscience, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China.
authors.forename: Xiaofei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China.
authors.forename: Chuanhong
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Jin
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Mechanics and Control of Mechanical Structures, Key Laboratory for Intelligent Nano Materials and Devices of the Ministry of Education and Institute of Nanoscience, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, 210016, China.
authors.forename: Wanlin
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Guo
keywords: Cu substrate; chemical vapor deposition; growth orientation; hexagonal boron nitride; symmetry