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Chemical vapour deposition

Making graphene on a large scale

Graphene samples with areas of several square centimetres and excellent electrical and optical properties have been fabricated using chemical vapour deposition.

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Figure 1: A chemical vapour deposition route for large-scale graphene production.

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Obraztsov, A. Making graphene on a large scale. Nature Nanotech 4, 212–213 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.67

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