Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a new nanoelectronics platform based on graphene – a single sheet of carbon atoms – that is compatible with conventional microelectronics manufacturing. To create the new nanoelectronics platform, the researchers created a modified form of epigraphene – a layer of graphene that can spontaneously form on top of silicon carbide crystal, a semiconductor used in high-power electronics. In collaboration with researchers at Tianjin University in China, they produced unique silicon carbide chips from electronics-grade silicon carbide crystals. Then, the researchers used electron beam lithography to carve the graphene nanostructures and weld their edges to the silicon carbide chips.
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