Swedish researchers launch graphene industry in Europe with Graphensic
A high quality is achieved by understanding the activity of silicon and carbon on the surface. The research team has worked many years with SiC growth processes, and since early 1990’s developed various growth methods from epitaxial to bulk. A benefit of the SiC is that the wide bandgap compound semiconductor may be conductive or semi‐insulating depending on the device requirement that users develop. The founders hope that the graphene research will be further supported by the graphene flagship, potentially having 1 billion euro support over ten years. The first customers come from the Nordic countries, France and Japan.
The team started to work with graphitic materials in 2002, an effort which resulted in the current graphene process. The first product is monolayer graphene on hexagonal silicon carbide. The company is also developing bilayer graphene. The research will continue developing new materials in the academic environment in parallel with the industrialization of graphene. The researchers are also developing a process for cubic SiC, and study the combination of this material with the graphene.
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