Graphene holds promise as the linchpin material for breakthroughs in everything from high-frequency transistors and photo-detectors, to flexible electronics and biosensors because of its supreme electrical, optical and mechanical properties.And while some labs, IBM included, have been able to demonstrate its abilities in high-speed transistors, the performance is still limited by the quality and size of graphene. The extremely high fabrication cost for high-quality graphene is also another hurdle for many of these potential applications.
Our team at IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center is getting close to making this feasible, as we are the first to successfully develop a reproducible technique to fabricate single-oriented, single-layer graphene at wafer-scale.
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