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FEATURE ARTICLE
December 2013
Photonics Is About to Get Flatter
graphene holds great potential for a variety of applications, from photovoltaics to lasers and sensors. Two-dimensional materials could soon provide useful photonic solutions for our 3-D world....

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Photonics_Is_About_to_Get_Flatter/p5/a55428
FEATURE ARTICLE
January 2017
Graphene Alignment Technique Holds Promise for Nanophotonics
Nanomaterials, such as nano-wires and nanotubes, are designed to have quantum confinement in one or two dimensions so that their properties in other dimensions can be engineered, differing from that...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Graphene_Alignment_Technique_Holds_Promise_for/p5/a61537
NEWS
June 2008
Sizing Up Graphene
The extraordinary properties of graphene have reportedly been measured with an accuracy never before achieved, confirming many of its strangest features but revealing significant departures from...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Sizing_Up_Graphene_/p5/a34176
FEATURE ARTICLE
June 2016
Simulation, Experiment Unite Graphene and Plasmonics
Ever since a single-atom-thick film of graphite was first successfully synthesized back in 2004, graphene has been on a decade-long ride through applications ranging from photovoltaics and...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Simulation_Experiment_Unite_Graphene_and/p5/a60836
NEWS
November 2010
Graphene Gets a Teflon Makeover
University of Manchester scientists have created a new material which could replace or compete with Teflon in thousands of everyday applications, including new types of LED devices. Professor...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Graphene_Gets_a_Teflon_Makeover/p5/a44900
NEWS
May 2011
Graphene Optical Modulators Could Speed Communications
Digital communications speed limits could soon be broken, thanks to a new graphene-based optical device that could theoretically reach as high as 500 GHz for a single modulator. Xiang Zhang, an...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/_Graphene_Optical_Modulators_Could_Speed/p5/a47065
NEWS
April 2006
Graphene Provides Foundation for New Electronics
A study of how electrons behave in circuitry made from ultrathin layers of graphite – known as graphene – suggests the material could provide the foundation for a new generation of nanometer-scale...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Graphene_Provides_Foundation_for_New_Electronics/p5/a25187
NEWS
April 2010
Graphene Clears Major Fabrication Hurdle
graphene, the two-dimensional crystalline form of carbon, is a potential superstar for the electronics industry. With freakishly mobile electrons that can blaze through the material at nearly the...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Graphene_Clears_Major_Fabrication_Hurdle/p5/a41802
NEWS
April 2010
Closing in on Carbon Solar Cells
By attaching what amounts to a 3-D bramble patch to each side of a carbon sheet, scientists say they were able to dissolve sheets containing as many as 168 carbon atoms to make large stable graphene...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Closing_in_on_Carbon_Solar_Cells/p5/a41820
NEWS
September 2013
Graphene on Chip Closing the Gap with Germanium
graphene-based photodetectors can efficiently convert infrared light into electrical signals, three independent studies report this week. The work "makes it very likely that graphene will soon...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Graphene_on_Chip_Closing_the_Gap_with_Germanium/p5/a54911
NEWS
October 2010
H2O May Hold Answer to Graphene Nanoelectronics
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute developed a new method for using water to tune the band gap of the nanomaterial graphene, opening the door to new graphene-based transistors,...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/H2O_May_Hold_Answer_to_Graphene_Nanoelectronics_/p5/a44793
NEWS
April 2010
Graphene Still a Great Thermal Conductor
The single-atom thick material graphene maintains its high thermal conductivity when supported by a substrate, a critical step to advancing the material from a laboratory phenomenon to a useful...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Graphene_Still_a_Great_Thermal_Conductor_/p5/a41808
FEATURE ARTICLE
March 2018
Thinnest of Materials Loom Large
Only a few atomic layers thick, 2D materials such as graphene, the compound semiconductor germanium selenium, the transition metal dichalcogenide molybdenum ditelluride, and others could provide new...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Thinnest_of_Materials_Loom_Large/p5/a63260
NEWS
November 2008
Mass Production of Graphene
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have discovered a method for mass production of nanomaterial graphene and have already produced the largest graphene sample reported...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Mass_Production_of_Graphene/p5/a35644
FEATURE ARTICLE
July 2016
Integrated Photonics: A Tale of Two Materials
Last July, the U.S. unveiled a national institute for integrated photonics backed by $600 million in federal, state and private funding. The Rochester, N.Y.-based American Institute for Manufacturing...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Integrated_Photonics_A_Tale_of_Two_Materials/p5/a60862
NEWS
June 2010
Nanocircuit Created on Graphene
Scientists have made a breakthrough toward creating nanocircuitry on graphene, which is widely regarded as the most promising candidate to replace silicon as the building block of transistors. ...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Nanocircuit_Created_on_Graphene/p5/a42538
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June 2015
Graphene Filaments Provide Tunable On-Chip Light Source
Incandescent bulbs may be a thing of the past, but the principle of light-emitting filaments may have a new use in displays and optical communications. Researchers from the U.S. and South Korea...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Graphene_Filaments_Provide_Tunable_On-Chip_Light/p5/a57496
NEWS
March 2010
Graphene Hybrid Created
Rice University researchers have found a way to stitch graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) into a two-dimensional quilt that offers new paths of exploration for materials scientists. ...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Graphene_Hybrid_Created/p5/a41233
NEWS
March 2008
Graphene In, Silicon Out?
graphene's ability to conduct electricity has been found to be higher than any other known material at room temperature. The research shows that graphene, a single-atom-thick sheet of graphite that...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Graphene_In_Silicon_Out/p5/a32917
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January 2010
Epitaxic Graphene Demonstrated
A collaborative research project has brought the world a step closer to producing a new material on which future nanotechnology could be based. Researchers across Europe, including the National...

https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Epitaxic_Graphene_Demonstrated/p5/a40819