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  • Letter |

    Nanoribbons of graphene grown on electronics-grade silicon carbide conduct electrons much better than expected; at room temperature, the charge carriers travel through the nanoribbons without scattering for a surprisingly long distance, more than ten micrometres.

    • Jens Baringhaus
    • , Ming Ruan
    •  & Walt A. de Heer

  • Letter |

    Basal-plane dislocations, identified as fundamental defects in bilayer graphene by transmission electron microscopy and atomistic simulations, reveal striking size effects, most notably a pronounced buckling of the graphene membrane, which drastically alters the strain state and is of key importance for the material’s mechanical and electronic properties.

    • Benjamin Butz
    • , Christian Dolle
    •  & Erdmann Spiecker

  • Letter |

    High-quality graphene is grown on copper and then transferred to the underlying substrate, typically silicon oxide or quartz, by simply etching away the copper; the graphene is held in place during etching by capillary bridges.

    • Libo Gao
    • , Guang-Xin Ni
    •  & Kian Ping Loh

  • Perspective |

    Fabrication techniques developed for graphene research allow the disassembly of many layered crystals (so-called van der Waals materials) into individual atomic planes and their reassembly into designer heterostructures, which reveal new properties and phenomena.

    • A. K. Geim
    •  & I. V. Grigorieva

  • Letter |

    Placing graphene on a boron nitride substrate and accurately aligning their crystallographic axes, to form a moiré superlattice, leads to profound changes in the graphene’s electronic spectrum.

    • L. A. Ponomarenko
    • , R. V. Gorbachev
    •  & A. K. Geim

  • Outlook |

    The same property that gives stained glass windows their sublime beauty is being crafted in the latest nanophotonic technologies, says Anatoly V. Zayats.

    • Anatoly V. Zayats

  • News |

    The 3D ‘monoliths’ — grown between forming ice crystals — add elasticity to the super-strength and conductivity of graphene sheets.

    • James Mitchell Crow

  • Review Article |

    Graphene’s numerous highly desirable properties mean that it has many possible applications in various technologies and devices; these are reviewed and analysed here.

    • K. S. Novoselov
    • , V. I. Fal′ko
    •  & K. Kim

  • Letter |

    This versatile and scalable ‘patterned regrowth’ fabrication process produces one-atom-thick sheets containing lateral junctions between electrically conductive graphene and insulating hexagonal boron nitride, paving the way for flexible, transparent electronic device films.

    • Mark P. Levendorf
    • , Cheol-Joo Kim
    •  & Jiwoong Park

  • Outlook |

    Graphene is phenomenally strong, thin, flexible, transparent and conductive — and applications beckon.

    • Neil Savage

  • Outlook |

    • Herb Brody

  • Outlook |

    Trying to shoehorn graphene into a digital circuit isn't working. But there may be another potential path to glory.

    • Katherine Bourzac

  • Outlook |

    Nature Outlook talks to the first director of the MIT's Centre for Graphene Devices and Systems, which was created in July 2011 to foster collaboration among academic, industrial and government groups studying this form of carbon.

    • Tomás Palacios

  • Outlook |

    Transparency across the spectrum combined with electronic prowess makes graphene an ideal photonic material.

    • Neil Savage

  • Outlook |

    Exploring graphene's chemical properties reveals a world of potential away from the purely two-dimensional, says Rodney Ruoff.

    • Rodney Ruoff

  • Outlook |

    Flecks of graphene are easy to make. But producing sheets of pristine, electronics-quality material is another matter.

    • Richard Van Noorden

  • Outlook |

    Silicon is more than an incumbent technology competing with graphene — it also has a history researchers should remember.

    • Michael Segal

  • News & Views |

    The synthesis of analogues of graphene by two different means provides insight into the origins of massless particles and paves the way for studies of materials with exotic topological properties. See Letters p.302 & p.306

    • Jonathan Simon
    •  & Markus Greiner

  • Letter |

    The formation of massless Dirac fermions is demonstrated in a highly tunable molecular graphene lattice, and particular distortions of the lattice are shown to endow the fermions with mass or engage the fermions with artificial electric and magnetic fields.

    • Kenjiro K. Gomes
    • , Warren Mar
    •  & Hari C. Manoharan

  • News & Views |

    In systems consisting of just a few layers of graphene, the relative orientation of adjacent layers depends on the material's preparation method. Light has now been shed on the relationship between stacking arrangement and electronic properties.

    • Allan H. MacDonald
    •  & Rafi Bistritzer

  • Editorial |

    Graphene is not a miracle material, just a very promising one. It will take restraint and sustained interest to deliver its potential.

  • News & Views |

    An innovative technique has been developed to manufacture graphene transistors that operate at radio frequencies and low temperatures. The process brings the devices closer to applications. See Letter p.74

    • Frank Schwierz

  • Letter |

    An attractive method to fabricate graphene transistors is transferring high-quality graphene sheets to a suitable substrate. This study identifies diamond-like carbon as a new substrate for graphene devices. It is attractive as few sources for scattering are expected at the interface that may lead to deterioration of device properties. Graphene transistors operating at radio frequencies with cutoff as high as 155 GHz and with scalable gate length are demonstrated. Unlike conventional semiconductor devices, the high-frequency performance of the graphene devices exhibits little temperature dependence down to 4.3 K, providing a much larger operation window than conventional devices.

    • Yanqing Wu
    • , Yu-ming Lin
    •  & Phaedon Avouris

  • Letter |

    Inelastic light scattering spectroscopy is a powerful tool in materials science to probe elementary excitations. In a quantum-mechanical picture, these excitations are generated by the incident photons via intermediate electronic transitions. It is now shown that it is possible to manipulate these intermediate 'quantum pathways' using electrostatically doped graphene. A surprising effect is revealed where blocking one pathway results in an increased intensity, unveiling a mechanism of destructive quantum interference between different Raman pathways. The study refines understanding of Raman scattering in graphene and indicates the possibility of controlling quantum pathways to produce unusual inelastic light scattering phenomena.

    • Chi-Fan Chen
    • , Cheol-Hwan Park
    •  & Feng Wang

  • News Feature |

    Researchers have spent 25 years exploring the remarkable properties of fullerenes, carbon nanotubes and graphene. But commercializing them is neither quick nor easy.

    • Richard Van Noorden

  • Letter |

    Electron microscopy has advanced to the stage where individual elements can be identified with atomic resolution. Here it is shown to be possible to get fine-structure spectroscopic information of individual light atoms such as those of carbon, and so also probe their chemical state. This capability is illustrated by investigating the edges of a graphene sample, where it is possible to discriminate between single-, double- and triple-coordinated carbon atoms.

    • Kazu Suenaga
    •  & Masanori Koshino

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