{"id":226993,"date":"2025-12-12T09:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/growth-strategy-enables-coherent-quantum-transport-in-single-layer-mos%e2%82%82-semiconductors"},"modified":"2025-12-12T09:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:08:16","slug":"growth-strategy-enables-coherent-quantum-transport-in-single-layer-mos%e2%82%82-semiconductors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/growth-strategy-enables-coherent-quantum-transport-in-single-layer-mos%e2%82%82-semiconductors","title":{"rendered":"Growth strategy enables coherent quantum transport in single-layer MoS\u2082 semiconductors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/growth-strategy-enables-coherent-quantum-transport-in-single-layer-mose28282-semiconductors2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are thin materials (i.e., one-atom thick) with advantageous electronic properties. These materials have proved to be promising for the development of thinner, highly performing electronics, such as fitness trackers and portable devices.<\/p>\n<p>A 2D semiconductor that has attracted particular interest within the electronics community is molybdenum disulfide (MoS\u2082), a transition-metal dichalcogenide made up of one metal atom and two chalcogen atoms. To build reliable large-area electronics based on MoS\u2082 layers, engineers need to uniformly grow this material over wafer-scale surfaces, minimizing defects that hinder the performance of devices.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and other institutes recently introduced a new approach to grow single-layer MoS\u2082 on substrates while maintaining a uniform atomic arrangement. Their approach, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41928-025-01496-x\" target=\"_blank\">outlined<\/a> in a paper in <i>Nature Electronics<\/i>, entails a greater control of the process by which small crystal regions merge on a substrate, also known as coalescence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are thin materials (i.e., one-atom thick) with advantageous electronic properties. These materials have proved to be promising for the development of thinner, highly performing electronics, such as fitness trackers and portable devices. A 2D semiconductor that has attracted particular interest within the electronics community is molybdenum disulfide (MoS\u2082), a transition-metal dichalcogenide made [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}