Good news for the community working on two-dimensional materials in Europe: a team of researchers at RWTH Aachen University has successfully implemented the process for growing high-quality hexagonal Boron Nitride at atmospheric pressure and high temperature, increasing the resilience of the supply chain of this unique material.
Hexagonal Boron Nitride grown in Aachen: the growth process results in a continuous crystal-layer with crystal grains of the order of a few 100 µm.
Nowadays it is possible to grow high-quality graphene on large scale using chemical vapor deposition (CVD). What remains a major bottleneck for the industrialization of the material is the transfer of graphene from the growth substrate to a target one. A team of researchers from the University of Cambridge and RWTH Aachen University has now developed a methodology for optimizing simultaneously the growth and the transfer process, showing that it is possible to dry-transfer graphene with high-yield, if the crystallographic orientation of the growth surface is chosen appropriately.
October 11, 2022, Prof. Steven Koester, from the University of Minnesota, has presented some of the latest results of his group on graphene-based bio-sensors during the 31th Aachen Graphene Center Seminar.
One of the challenges encountered by research on novel electronic devices is to compare devices based on different materials in a consistent way. RWTH Professor Max Lemme and colleagues from USA, China, and Belgium have now proposed a set of clear guidelines for benchmarking key parameters and performance metrics of emergent field-effect transistors. The guidelines have been published as a Perspective Article in Nature Electronics.
Mr. Saketh Ravuri and Ms. Priyanka Mondal have joined the “2D Materials and Quantum Devices Group” lead by Prof. Christoph Stampfer at RWTH Aachen University for a seven-month research staying supported by DAAD KOSPIE scholarships.
The Aachen Graphene & 2D Materials Center warmly congratulates Dr. Alwin Daus, who has won a grant of the Emmy Noether Programme for founding his own junior research group working on 2D materials for flexible electronics.
The Aachen Graphene & 2D Materials Center welcomes Ms. Zeynep Burcu Çavdar, who is spending a six-month research staying at the Chair for Electronic Devices (ELD) at RWTH Aachen University, supported by a grant of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK),