Publications

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Also of interest:

• First NSF Proposals
• Letter to the 2010 Nobel Committee
• Graphene in Layman’s Terms
• Colloquium: “Structured Graphene: from Ballistic Transport to Electronics” (2013) (video stream)

Milestone Publications

• Jian Zhao, Peixuan Ji, Yaqi Li, Rui Li, Kaimin Zhang, Hao Tian, Kaicheng Yu, Boyue Bian, Luzhen Hao, Xue Xiao, Will Griffin, Noel Dudeck, Ramiro Moro, Lei Ma, and Walt A. de Heer. Ultrahigh-mobility semiconducting epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide. Nature 625, 60–65 (2024).
• V. S. Prudkovskiy, Y. Hu, K. Zhang, Y. Hu, P. Ji, G. Nunn, J. Zhao, C. Shi, A. Tejeda, D. Wander, A. De Cecco, C. B Winkelmann, Y. Jiang, T. Zhao, K. Wakabayashi, Z. Jiang, L. Ma, C. Berger, and W. A. de Heer. An epitaxial graphene platform for zero-energy edge state nanoelectronics. Nature Communications 13, 7814 (2022).
• J. Gigliotti, X. Li, S. Sundaram, J.-P. Turmaud, D. Deniz, Y. Hu, Y. Hu, V.  Prudkovskiy, G. Patriarche, F. Fossard, J.-B.Sébastien Mérot, A. Loiseau, U. Landmann, A. Ougazzaden, C. Berger, and W. A. de Heer. Highly ordered boron nitride/epigraphene epitaxial films on silicon carbide by lateral epitaxial deposition. ACS Nano, 14, 10, 12962–12971 (2020).
• C. Berger, E.H. Conrad, and W. A. de Heer. Epigraphene. In G. Chiarotti and P. Chiaradia (eds.), Landolt–Börstein encyclopedia: Physics of Solid Surfaces, Subvolume B, Chapter 166 (pp 1-87). Springer-Verlag, arXiv:1704.00374 (review article) (2018).
• J. Baringhaus, M. Ruan, F. Edler, A. Tejeda, M. Sicot, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, A.P. Li, Z. Jiang, E.H. Conrad, C. Berger, C. Tegenkamp, W. A. de Heer. Exceptional ballistic transport in epitaxial graphene nanoribbons. Nature, 506, 349-354 (2014).
• R. Dong, Z. Guo, M. Ruan, J. Kunc, S. K Bhattacharya, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer. Wafer bonding solution to epitaxial graphene-silicon integration. J. Phys D 47, 094001 (2014).
• Z. Guo, R. Dong, P.S. Chakraborty, N. Lourenco, J. Palmer, Y. Hu, M. Ruan, J. Hankinson, J. Kunc, J. D. Cressler, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer. Record Maximum Oscillation Frequency in C-face Epitaxial Graphene transistors. Nano Letters, 13, 942 (2013).
• W. A. de Heer, C. Berger, M. Ruan, M. Sprinkle, X. Li, Yike Hu, B. Zhang, J. Hankinson, E.H. Conrad. Large area and structured epitaxial graphene produced by confinement controlled sublimation of silicon carbide. PNAS, 108 (41) 16900 (2011).
• M. Sprinkle, M. Ruan, X. Wu, Y. Hu, M. Rubio-Roy, J. Hankinson, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer. Scalable Templated growth of graphene nanoribbons on SiC. Nature Nanotechnology 5, 727 (2010).
• X. Wu, Y. Hu, M. Ruan, N. K. Madiomanana, J. Hankinson, M. Sprinkle, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer. Half integer quantum Hall effect in high mobility single layer epitaxial graphene. Applied Physics Letters 95, 223108 (2009).
• M. Sprinkle, D. Siegel, Y. Hu, J. Hicks, P. Soukiassan, A. Tejeda, A. Taleb-Ibrahimi, P. Le Févre, F. Bertran, S. Vizzini, H. Enriquez, S. Chiang, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer, A. Lanzara, E. H. Conrad. First direct observation of a nearly ideal graphene band structure. Phys Rev Lett 103, 226803 (2009).
• J. Kedzierski, P.-L. Hsu, P. Healey, P. Wyatt, C. Keast, M. Sprinkle, C. Berger, W. A. de Heer. Epitaxial Graphene Electron Devices on SiC Substrates. IEEE /Transactions on Electron Devices 55, 2078 (2008).
• J. Hass, F. Varchon, J. E. Millan-Otoya, M. Sprinkle, W. A. de Heer, C. Berger, P. N. First, L. Magaud, E. H. Conrad. Why Multilayer Graphene on 4H-SiC(000-1) Behaves Like a Single Sheet of Graphene. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 125504 (2008).
• M. L. Sadowski, G. Martinez, M. Potemski, C. Berger, and W. A. de Heer. Landau level spectroscopy of ultrathin graphite layers. Physical Review Letters, 97: 266405.
• C Berger, Z. Song, X. Li, X. Wu, N. Brown, C. Naud, D. Mayou, T. Li, J. Hass, A. N. Marchenkov, E. H. Conrad, P. N. First, W. A. de Heer. Electronic Confinement and Coherence in Patterned Epitaxial Graphene. Science 312, 1191 (2006).
• C. Berger, Z. Song, T. Li, X. Li, A. Ogbazghi, R. Feng, Z. Dai, A. Marchenkov, E. Conrad, P. First, W. de Heer. Ultrathin epitaxial graphite: 2D electron gas properties and a route toward graphene-based nanoelectronics.. Journal of Physical Chemistry B 108(52): 19912–19916.