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Front Cover (Phys. Status Solidi B 11‐12/2010)
Author(s) -
Neubeck Soeren,
Freitag Frank,
Yang Rui,
Novoselov Kostya S.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
physica status solidi (b)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 109
eISSN - 1521-3951
pISSN - 0370-1972
DOI - 10.1002/pssb.201090022
Subject(s) - graphene , wafer , front cover , fabrication , lithography , nanotechnology , materials science , graphite , cover (algebra) , oxide , optoelectronics , optics , physics , composite material , engineering , mechanical engineering , metallurgy , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology
The illustration on the front cover shows an optical image of a graphene device as used for scanning probe lithography by Soeren Neubeck et al. of Kostya Novoselov's group ( pp. 2904–2908 ). Graphene flakes (D) are placed on top of an oxidized silicon wafer (B) with an oxide thickness of typically 300 nm. Connected by Ti/Au contacts (C), the graphene flakes can be grounded with respect to the tip of an atomic force microscope. Using scanning probe lithography several structures were etched in graphene, pointing this technique's potential for the fabrication of nanoelectronic devices. Besides, the investigation of the oxidation kinetics on graphite is presented. Kostya Novoselov and his colleague Andre Geim are being awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Physics “for groundbreaking experiments regarding the two‐dimensional material graphene”.