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Making light of electrons

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Electrons have been channelled through graphene wires using the principles of optical guiding by fibre optic cables.

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Figure 1: Electrons from a point source (yellow circle) travel down a graphene p–n waveguide, consisting of two hole-rich areas (p) and a central, electron-rich area (n).

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  1. David Goldhaber-Gordon is in the Department of Physics and Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, 476 Lomita Mall, Stanford, California 94305, USA, and at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel.,

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