Nascent Graphene Institute Makes Steps Toward Transistors

"Researchers have created the world's thinnest pane of glass?and it looks oddly familiar. The glass, made of silicon and oxygen, formed accidentally when the scientists were making graphene, an atom-thick sheet of carbon, on copper-covered quartz. They believe an air leak caused the copper to react with the quartz, which is also made of silicon and oxygen, producing a glass layer with the graphene. The glass is a mere three atoms thick?the minimum thickness of silica glass?which makes it two-dimensional. [...] In addition to demonstrating how graphene makes it possible to produce previously unfeasible 2D-materials, ultra-thin glass could be used in semiconductor or graphene transistors."

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/02/scienceshot-two-dimensional-glass.html [sciencemag.org]

How about three atoms thick glass as an insulator between graphene layers?

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