We have imaged a freestanding graphene sheet of 210 nm in diameter with 2 Å resolution by combining coherent diffraction and holography with low-energy electrons. The entire sheet is reconstructed from a single diffraction pattern displaying the arrangement of 660.000 individual graphene unit cells at once. Given the fact that electrons with kinetic energies of the order of 100 eV do not damage...

Graphene, an allotrope of carbon is a two-dimensional sheet of covalently bonded carbon atoms that has been attracting great attention in the field of electronics. In a recent review graphene is defined as a flat monolayer of carbon atoms tightly packed into a 2-D honeycomb lattice. A survey has been made of the production processes and instrumentation for characterization of graphene. In the p...

Graphene is attractive for realizing optoelectronic devices, including photodetectors because of the unique advantages. It can easily co-work with other semiconductors to form a Schottky junction, in which the photo-carrier generated by light absorption in the semiconductor might be transported to the graphene layer efficiently by the build-in field. It changes the graphene conduction greatly a...

The new carbon age Nanotubes and Graphene a transparent future ahead Graphene is two-dimensional nanomaterial consisting of a single layer of sp 2 network of carbon atoms (Fig. 1a) 1. While the thickness of a graphene sheet is on the order of a single atomic unit, its lateral dimension can approach up to tens of microns. Graphene and its derivatives such as graphene oxide (GO) (Fig. 1b), and re...

Graphene has amazing abilities due to its unique band structure characteristics de‐ fining its enhanced electrical capabilities for a material with the highest characteris‐ tic mobility known to exist at room temperature. The high mobility of graphene occurs due to electron delocalization and weak electron–phonon interaction, mak‐ ing graphene an ideal material for electrical applications requi...

We present a technique to pattern the charge density of a large-area epitaxial graphene sheet locally without using metallic gates. Instead, local intercalation of the graphene-substrate interface can selectively be established in the vicinity of graphene edges or predefined voids. It provides changes of the work function of several hundred meV, corresponding to a conversion from n-type to p-ty...

Graphene is two-dimensional nanomaterial consisting of a single layer of sp2 network of carbon atoms (Fig. 1a)1. While the thickness of a graphene sheet is on the order of a single atomic unit, its lateral dimension can approach up to tens of microns. Graphene and its derivatives such as graphene oxide (GO) (Fig. 1b), and reduced graphene oxide (r-GO, a.k.a. chemically modified graphene) (Fig. ...

Using atomistic simulations, we demonstrate that β-sheet, an essential component of spider silk protein, has a thermal conductivity 1-2 orders of magnitude higher than that of some other protein structures reported in the literature. In contrast to several other nanostructured materials of similar bundled/layered structures (e.g. few-layer graphene and bundled carbon nanotubes), the β-sheet is ...

Chun Ning (Jeanie) Lau, Assistant Professor Department of Physics Dr. Lau received her BA from University of Chicago and PhD in physics from Harvard University. Her work at Harvard investigating the fundamental limit to superconductivity in nanowires was reported in popular international magazines such as The Economist and Profil. Her current research effort is to explore novel phenomena of nan...