Past Seminars Seminários Já Decorridos 2008

Graphene: the bilayer with a twist

By: Joao Lopes dos Santos
From: Departamento de Fisica, Universidade do Porto
At: Complexo Interdisciplinar, Anfiteatro
[2008-06-25] 11:30

This seminar will begin with a brief review of the physics of graphene, a fascinating new material, from the point of view of technology and fundamental physics. We will then discuss some of the properties of the graphene bilayer, which offers the prospect of a tunable gap semiconductor.