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Science & ResearchAug 27, 2026

Direct evaporation of single-crystal metal contacts for 2D semiconductors.

Metal contacts remain one of the key bottlenecks in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor electronics.

Metal contacts remain one of the key bottlenecks in two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor electronics. We developed an atomic-scale step-by-step evaporation method to directly grow single-crystal metals on monolayer semiconductors with clean interfaces. This method accesses a…

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