Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Metal-induced rapid transformation of diamond into single and multilayer graphene on wafer scale

  • Diana Berman,
  • Sanket A. Deshmukh,
  • Badri Narayanan,
  • Subramanian K. R. S. Sankaranarayanan,
  • Zhong Yan,
  • Alexander A. Balandin,
  • Alexander Zinovev,
  • Daniel Rosenmann,
  • Anirudha V. Sumant

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12099
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Direct growth of large-area graphene on dielectric substrates is a promising route to wafer scale integration. Here the authors use a rapid thermal annealing process to grow graphene layers on four-inch diameter polycrystalline diamond, eliminating the need for transfer.