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Leaning on a ledge

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Surface ledges of β-Ga2O3 (100) substrates guide the unidirectional nucleation and growth of transition metal dichalcogenides, achieving centimetre-long, single-crystalline and densely aligned nanoribbons in wafer scale.

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Fig. 1: Ledge-directed growth of aligned MoS2 nanoribbon arrays.

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