Two-dimensional materials manufacturing system (2DMMS)
Open-source software for automated searching and assembly for van der Waals heterostructures
Note that this webpage is currently under development.
About 2DMMS
Open-source platform for aunotnomous robotic searching and assembl of van der Waals heterostructures. The following functionalities are supported:
- Automated searching for atomically thin exfoliated 2D crystals on SiO2/Si substrate
- Building the database of opitcal microscope images of detected 2D crystals
- Computer assisted design of van der Waals heterostructures by selecting the 2D crystals from the database
- Semi-automated assembly of designed van der Waals heterostructures
License
- The software is licenced under BSD-3-Clause License
Software Requirements
The following software components are required.
- Ubuntu 14.04 or higher
- ROS Indigo
- QT 5.2.1 or higher
- HALCON12 Image processing library
- Open CL
- MySQL
Hardware support
The following hardware comopnents are supported.
Install dependencies for Ubuntu 14.04
% sudo apt-get install ros-indigo-desktop-full ros-indigo-nmea-msgs ros-indigo-nmea-navsat-driver ros-indigo-sound-play
Changes
- beta-1 initial public release.
Citations
The detailed descriptions of this system are provided in the paper; “Autonomous robotic searching and assembly of two-dimensional crystals to build van der Waals superlattices”, Satoru Masubuchi et al., Nature Communications (2018).
If the information provided helps your research, it would be appreciated if you could cite the paper in your publications.
Remarks
I hope to continue developing 2DMMS to become a truly helpful tool for the research community of van der Waals heterostructures. Please feel free to email me with your feedback or any issues at: msatoru@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Satoru Masubuchi