Wafer-scale production of graphene-based photonic devices
Graphene Flagship researchers have devised a wafer-scale fabrication method that paves the way to the next generation of telecom and datacom devices.
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Spotlight: Graphene for 5G communication and more with Nokia’s Paola Galli
Developing next-generation graphene-based optical networks for 5G and future communication technologies with Nokia’s Paola Galli
Dialing up smartphone technology with graphene and layered materials
Kari Hjelt, Graphene Flagship Head of Innovation, explains how, thanks to graphene, phones could become faster and better-connected, with longer battery lives than ever before.
Graphene Flagship partner Cambridge Raman Imaging gains new investment
Cambridge Raman Imaging, spin-off company born from the Graphene Flagship, gains investment to build novel medical microscope for tumor imaging and more
Smallest cavity for light realised by graphene plasmons
Graphene and metallic cubes enable the smallest cavities to date for infrared light - artistic impression.
Artificial fog made of hexagonal boron nitride helps lasers shine brighter and more colourful
Graphene Flagship researchers have devised a light diffuser based on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) – a layered material with the same hexagonal structure as graphene, but with complementary properties – able to convert directional laser beams into a luminous source that scatters light in all directions.
Clean CARS Spectroscopy Enables Fast Graphene Imaging
A new understanding of ultrafast light interaction with graphene puts the spotlight on CARS spectroscopy as a tool for fast graphene imaging
Graphene enables flexible and transparent health monitors
A new class of flexible and transparent wearable devices conforms to the skin, providing continuous and accurate measurements of multiple human vital signs – heart rate, respiration rate, blood pulse oxygenation, and exposure to UV radiation.
Graphene for Photonics and Optoelectronics Applications
Antonios Oikonomou is a business developer for the Graphene Flagship (flexible electronics and wearables devices) and for the Graphene and 2D materials project portfolio at ICFO (optoelectronics and photonics).
Defects in layered materials enable ‘green’ high-performance infrared photodetectors
Tailoring material defects, Graphene Flagship researchers at ICFO created highly sensitive and CMOS-compatible broadband photodetectors.
Graphene sensors can hear your brain whisper
Graphene Flagship researchers develop a sensor that records brain activity at extremely low frequencies and could lead to new treatments for epilepsy
High-bandwidth graphene photodetectors for high-speed optical communications
Using CMOS-compatible techniques, Flagship researchers from AMO have created photodetectors with a record-breaking bandwidth of >76 GHz, ideal for fast data communications.
Let there be Light: Deterministic arrays of Quantum Emitters
A key result from Flagship researchers demonstrates large scale, fully integrable arrays of single photon quantum emitters in layered materials, which may lead to hybrid on-chip photonics devices for networks and sensing.
