Lighting the Way to Graphene-based Devices

Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Light to Dope Graphene Boron Nitride Heterostructures Graphene continues to reign as the next potential superstar material for the electronics industry, a slimmer, stronger and  much faster electron conductor than silicon. With no natural energy band-gap, however, graphene’s superfast conductance can’t be switched off, a serious drawback for transistors and other… Continue Reading Lighting the Way to Graphene-based Devices

Bilayer Graphene Works as an Insulator

A research team led by physicists at the University of California, Riverside has identified a property of “bilayer graphene” (BLG) that the researchers say is analogous to finding the Higgs boson in particle physics. Graphene, nature’s thinnest elastic material, is a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. Because of graphene’s… Continue Reading Bilayer Graphene Works as an Insulator