Graduate student Jiadi Zhu holding an 8-inch CMOS wafer with molybdenum disulfide thin film. (IMAGE)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Graduate student Jiadi Zhu holding an 8-inch CMOS wafer with molybdenum disulfide thin film.

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Graduate student Jiadi Zhu holding an 8-inch CMOS wafer with molybdenum disulfide thin film. On the right is the furnace the researchers developed, which enabled them to "grow" a layer of molybdenum disulfide onto the wafer using a low-temperature process that did not damage the wafer.

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