Large area chemical vapour deposition grown transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers automatically characterized through photoluminescence imaging
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Abstract Chemical vapour deposition (CVD) growth is capable of producing multiple single-crystal islands of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) over large areas. Subsequent merging of perfectly epitaxial domains can lead to single-crystal monolayer sheets, a step towards scalable production of high quality TMDs. For CVD growth to be effectively harnessed for such production it is necessary to be able to rapidly assess the quality of material across entire large area substrates. To date, characterisation has been limited to sub-0.1-mm2 areas, where the properties measured are not necessarily representative of an entire sample. Here, we apply photoluminescence (PL) imaging and computer vision techniques to create an automated analysis for large area samples of monolayer TMDs, measuring the properties of island size, density of islands, relative PL intensity and homogeneity, and orientation of triangular domains. The analysis is applied to ×20 magnification optical microscopy images that completely map samples of WSe2 on hBN, 5.0 mm × 5.0 mm in size, and MoSe2–WS2 on SiO2/Si, 11.2 mm × 5.8 mm in size. Two prevailing orientations of epitaxial growth were observed in WSe2 grown on hBN and four predominant orientations were observed in MoSe2, initially grown on c-plane sapphire. The proposed analysis will greatly reduce the time needed to study freshly synthesised material over large area substrates and provide feedback to optimise growth conditions, advancing techniques to produce high quality TMD monolayer sheets for commercial applications.
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