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Thinking outside the silicon box

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The best applications of graphene will be those that exploit its basic characteristics, rather than try to change them.

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Figure 1: Schematic diagram of an infrared detector in which graphene nanoribbons (top) are integrated onto a prefabricated silicon chip.

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