Autonomous robotic searching and assembly of two-dimensional crystals to build van der Waals superlattices

The fabrication of van der Waals heterostructures of atomically thin materials often relies on the search, manual transferring, and alignment of suitable flakes. Here, the authors develop a robotic system capable of identifying exfoliated 2D crystals and assembling them in complex heterostructures.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Satoru Masubuchi, Masataka Morimoto, Sei Morikawa, Momoko Onodera, Yuta Asakawa, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Tomoki Machida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03723-w