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Volume 6 Issue 3, March 2007

Graphene has become a model system for condensed-matter physics and materials science.

Cover design by David Shand

Progress Article by Geim and Novoselov.

Volume 6 Issue 3

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Editorial

  • Three years after the first experimental results, graphene promises more fascinating physics and dream applications.

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Research Highlights

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News & Views

  • Reducing the operating voltage and power consumption of organic-based logic circuits for portable applications is a critical step towards the commercialization of organic electronics.

    • David J. Gundlach
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  • The future of quantum computing relies on keeping information in quantum spin phases. A study of molecular nanomagnets shows that their dephasing time may be more suitable than previously thought.

    • Wolfgang Wernsdorfer
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  • Raman spectroscopy experiments show that the interaction between electrons and phonons in graphene resembles the Dirac fermion–photon coupling in quantum electrodynamics.

    • Antonio H. Castro Neto
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  • Despite intense research efforts, no three-dimensional materials with a photonic bandgap for visible wavelengths have yet been fabricated. A new self-assembly strategy lays out the route towards the realization of this dream.

    • David J. Norris
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  • An explanation for the need of a reduction process in electron-doped superconductors offers new insight into the conductivity mechanism of these lesser-known superconductors.

    • Hidenori Takagi
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  • Simulations of nanoscale sharp tips sliding on a salt surface predict vanishing friction at temperatures close to the melting temperature, as the tip skates on a layer of liquefied salt. This insight opens the way to applications in MEMS, NEMS and auto/aerospace engines.

    • Ernst Meyer
    • Enrico Gnecco
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  • Ice, silicon and oxide glasses can show amorphous phases of distinct densities. Based on changes in atomic bond lengths, a similar polyamorphism has now been observed in structurally different metallic glasses.

    • Alain R. Yavari
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Letter

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In This Issue

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Focus

  • Graphene is a one-atom-thick layer of carbon. Since it was first isolated in its freestanding form in 2004, it has become a playground for condensed-matter physicists and materials scientists. In this focus issue we review the brief but intense history of this material, as well as recent experimental observations that confirm the unusual and intriguing physical properties of this carbon sheet.

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