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The lab-to-fab journey of 2D materials

An EU-funded open call aims at building a consortium to bridge basic and applied research on graphene and related atomically thin crystals for the development of integrated circuit technologies.

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Fig. 1: A fully functional microprocessor based on an atomically thin material.

Thomas Mueller, Vienna University of Technology

Fig. 2: IC architecture.

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Milana, S. The lab-to-fab journey of 2D materials. Nat. Nanotechnol. 14, 919–921 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0554-3

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