TAIPEI, Taiwan - Under long-term support from the “Taiwan Consortium of Emergent Crystalline Materials” (TCECM) program of the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Taiwan, a research team at National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) collaborated with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to form an industry-university joint research team, reporting a breakthrough in the synthesis of one-atom-thick boron nitride (BN). The joint research team successfully developed a method to synthesize wafer-scale and single-crystal BN, which may be applied toward the fabrication of advanced logic integrated circuits. This outstanding fundamental research result was published in the top journal ?Nature? in March 2020.