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How silicon leaves the scene

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Large and homogeneous layers of graphene are obtained by annealing silicon carbide in a dense noble gas atmosphere that controls the way in which silicon sublimates. Epitaxial graphene thus gets back on track towards future electronic applications.

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Figure 1: Evolution of the surface during graphitization of Si-face SiC.

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  1. Peter Sutter is at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA. psutter@bnl.gov,

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Sutter, P. How silicon leaves the scene. Nature Mater 8, 171–172 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2392

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