METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR OXIDATION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATERIALS

• Main Authors: BESSONOV, Alexander Alexandrovich, PETUKHOV, Dmitrii Igorevich, KIRIKOVA, Marina Nikolaevna
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 04.01.2017
• Subjects: ARTIFICIAL STONE; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CEMENTS; CERAMICS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF GLASSES, GLAZES, OR VITREOUSENAMELS; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS THEREOF, e.g. MORTARS, CONCRETE OR LIKE BUILDINGMATERIALS; CONCRETE; DEVICES USING STIMULATED EMISSION; ELECTRIC SOLID STATE DEVICES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; ELECTRICITY; GLASS; JOINING GLASS TO GLASS OR OTHER MATERIALS; LIME, MAGNESIA; METALLURGY; MINERAL OR SLAG WOOL; REFRACTORIES; SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES; SLAG; SURFACE TREATMENT OF FIBRES OR FILAMENTS MADE FROM GLASS,MINERALS OR SLAGS; SURFACE TREATMENT OF GLASS; TREATMENT OF NATURAL STONE

In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed. The method comprises providing a two-dimensional object comprising a lll-V group material, e.g. Boron nitride (BN), Boron carbon nitride (BCN), Aluminium nitride (AIN), Gallium nitride (GaN), Indium Nitride (InN), Indium phosphide (InP), Indium arsenide (InAs), Boron phosphide (BP), Boron arsenide (BAs), and Gallium phosphide (GaP) and/or a Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMD) group material, e.g Molybdenum sulfide (MoS2), Molybdenum diselenide (MoSe2), Tungsten sulfide (WS2), Tungsten diselenide (WSe2), Niobium sulfide (NbS2), Vanadium sulfide (VS2,), and Tantalum sulfide (TaS2) into an environment comprising oxygen; and exposing at least one part of the two-dimensional object to photonic irradiation in said environment, thereby oxidizing at least part of the material of the exposed part of the two-dimensional object.