Water-Soluble Epitaxial NaCl Thin Film for Fabrication of Flexible Devices

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 8716 - 7
• Main Authors: Lee, Dong Kyu, Kim, Sungjoo, Oh, Sein, Choi, Jae-Young, Lee, Jong-Lam, Yu, Hak Ki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Nature Publishing Group 18.08.2017; Nature Publishing Group UK; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: Sodium chloride; Thin films

We studied growth mechanisms of water-soluble NaCl thin films on single crystal substrates. Epitaxial growth of NaCl(100) on Si(100) and domain-matched growth of NaCl(111) on c-sapphire were obtained at thicknesses below 100 nm even at room temperature from low lattice mismatches in both cases. NaCl...