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Homoepitaxy of Boron Nitride on Exfoliated Hexagonal Boron Nitride Flakes.

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Although large efforts have been made to improve the growth of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) by heteroepitaxy, the non-native substrates remain a fundamental factor that limits the quality. This problem can be solved by homoepitaxy, which is the growth of hBN on hBN substrates. In this report, we demonstrate the homoepitaxial growth of triangular BN grains on exfoliated hBN flakes by Metal-Organic Vapor Phase Epitaxy and show by atomic force microscopy and photoluminescence that the stacking of these triangular islands can deviate from the AA' stacking of hBN. We show that the stacking order is enforced by the crystallographic direction of the edge of the exfoliated hBN flakes, with armchair edges allowing for centrosymmetric stacking, whereas zigzag edges lead to the growth of noncentrosymmetric BN polytypes. Our results indicate pathways to grow homoepitaxial BN with tunable layer stacking, which is required to induce piezoelectricity or ferroelectricity.
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