Growing high-quality Graphene

"For growing high-quality graphene on silicon carbide, controlling the evaporation of silicon at just the right temperature is essential," said Walt de Heer, a professor who pioneered the technique in the Georgia Tech School of Physics. "By precisely controlling the rate at which silicon comes off the wafer, we can control the rate at which graphene is produced. That allows us to produce very nice layers of epitaxial graphene."

MRSEC seminar series for Spring 2012

The first MRSEC Seminar of the Spring 2012 semester will be held on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 3pm in the Microelectronics Research Center, Room 102 located on the first floor of the building.  We are pleased to welcome Dr. Mark Hersam, Northwestern University as our speaker.  Read More >>

Prof Walt de Heer awarded 1st Felcht Award

Professor Walter de Heer has been honored as the 1st Utz-Hellmuth Felcht Award winner at the International Carbon Conference in Shanghai where he was recognized for his invention of graphene based electronics and for his merits in the area of graphene research and his revolutionary concept of graphene based nanoelectronics.

Graphene - She goes fast, she goes fast, she goes fast

Click on the graphic to hear the musical version of Graphene conceived and recorded for Inside the Black Box

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Technique Produces Graphene Nanoribbons with Metallic Properties

Researchers have made graphene nanoribbons with metallic properties.

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Epitaxial Graphene Home

The Georgia Tech Materials Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC), funded  by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is located in the Georgia Tech Marcus Nanotechnology Building. The  initial focus of the center is research and development on epitaxial  graphene (EG), a material with extraordinary electronic properties that  offers the possibility of greatly enhanced speed and performance  relative to silicon; this material may serve as the successor to silicon  in integrated circuits and microelectronic devices. Georgia Tech Physics  Professors Walt de Heer, Ed Conrad, and Phil First are world leaders  in the growth and characterization of EG.

Research Mission

The Georgia Tech MRSEC will develop the fundamental science and technology to maximize graphene’s potential for future electronics technology, will establish core curricula in Epitaxial Graphene (EG), and will educate and train a diverse workforce for future academic and industrial leadership in microelectronics.  The MRSEC EG effort is cross-disciplinary within Georgia Tech and within three other U.S. universities:  University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Riverside, and University of Michigan.  Professor Dennis Hess (ChBE) serves as the Georgia Tech MRSEC Director, and Professor Walt de Heer (Physics) heads the EG Interdisciplinary Research Group.