2010/02/02 by Caterina Soldano, Ather Mahmood, Erik Dujardin · 1,792 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #CMOS #Composite material #Graphene #Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications #Graphene research and applications #Materials science #Nanotechnology #Optoelectronics #Oxide #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Silicon carbide #cond-mat.mes-hall #cond-mat.mtrl-sci
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.carbon.2010.01.058
published in Carbon 48(8), 2127-2150 (Elsevier BV) · Review article: 21 pages, 243 references, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in Carbon, 2010
arxiv created 2010/02/02 · openalex publication_date 2010/02/05 · arxiv updated 2010/11/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
This review on graphene, a one atom thick, two-dimensional sheet of carbon atoms, starts with a general description of the graphene electronic structure as well as a basic experimental toolkit for identifying and handling this material. Owing to the versatility of graphene properties and projected applications, several production techniques are summarized, ranging from the mechanical exfoliation of high quality graphene to the direct growth on carbides or metal substrates and from the chemical routes using graphene oxide to the newly developed approach at the molecular level. The most promising and appealing properties of graphene are summarized from an exponentially growing literature, with a particular attention to matching production methods to characteristics and to applications. In particular, we report on the high carrier mobility value in suspended and annealed samples for electronic devices, on the thickness-dependent optical transparency and, in the mechanical section, on the high robustness and full integration of graphene in sensing device applications. Finally, we emphasize on the high potential of graphene not only as a post-silicon materials for CMOS device application but more ambitiously as a platform for post-CMOS molecular architecture in electronic information processing.