GRAPHENE

Since 2001 and the invention of graphene electronics (GT patent 2003) the Georgia Tech epitaxial graphene research team led by Walt de Heer and its collaborators are developing the new field of epitaxial graphene, or epigraphene, electronics... Graphene has been known for decades in many forms (exfoliated, epitaxial, isolated) and a number of its properties were measured or inferred from related materials, like graphite and carbon nanotubes. Yet, only recently was its potential as an electronic material recognized. Epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide has played a pivotal role in this development: it was the first to be proposed as a platform for graphene-based electronics; the first measurements on graphene monolayers were made on epitaxial graphene; and the graphene-electronic band structure was first measured on EG. The epitaxial graphene program, initiated in 2001 at the Georgia Institute of Technology, has spearheaded graphene-based electronics and developed methods to produce..