DOI: 10.1063/1.2768624. Making graphene visible

10.1063/1.2768624

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Abstract

Microfabrication of graphene devices used in many experimental studies currently relies on the fact that graphene crystallites can be visualized using optical microscopy if prepared on top of Si wafers with a certain thickness of SiO2. The authors study graphene’s visibility and show that it depends strongly on both thickness of SiO2 and light wavelength. They have found that by using monochromatic illumination, graphene can be isolated for any SiO2 thickness, albeit 300nm (the current standard) and, especially, ≈100nm are most suitable for its visual detection. By using a Fresnel-law-based model, they quantitatively describe the experimental data.

Bibliography

Blake, P., Hill, E. W., Castro Neto, A. H., Novoselov, K. S., Jiang, D., Yang, R., Booth, T. J., & Geim, A. K. (2007). Making graphene visible. Applied Physics Letters, 91(6).

Authors 8

P. Blake (first)
E. W. Hill (additional)
A. H. Castro Neto (additional)
K. S. Novoselov (additional)
D. Jiang (additional)
R. Yang (additional)
T. J. Booth (additional)
A. K. Geim (additional)

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Dates

Type	When
Created	18 years ago (Aug. 13, 2007, 12:29 p.m.)
Deposited	2 years ago (Aug. 6, 2023, 3:38 a.m.)
Indexed	2 hours, 24 minutes ago (Aug. 21, 2025, 1:28 p.m.)
Issued	18 years ago (Aug. 6, 2007)
Published	18 years ago (Aug. 6, 2007)
Published Online	18 years ago (Aug. 10, 2007)
Published Print	18 years ago (Aug. 6, 2007)

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BibTeX

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