Wafer-scale integration of graphene for waveguide-integrated optoelectronics

Abstract

As the focus of graphene research shifts from fundamental physics to applications, the scalability and reproducibility of experimental results become ever more important. Graphene has been proposed as an enabling material for the continuing growth of the telecommunications industry due to its applications in optoelectronics; however, the extent of its adoption will depend on the possibility to maintain the high intrinsic quality of graphene when processing it using the industry-standard approaches. We look at the challenges of scalable graphene integration and the opportunities presented by the recent technological advances.