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By thermal annealing, few-layer MoS₂ flakes can be thinned down. In one hour, the upper layer is peeled off due to sublimation. Eventually, monolayer MoS₂ is achieved. We have characterized the process by optical contrast, Raman spectroscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM), and observed a mixture of surfaces of N and N- 1 layers.
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