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Surfing ripples towards new devices

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The electronic properties of graphene can be changed by exploiting its unusual thermal properties to introduce periodic ripples with given wavelengths and amplitudes.

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Figure 1: Artistic impression of periodic ripples in single-layer graphene.

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  1. Rodolfo Miranda and Amadeo L. Vázquez de Parga are in the Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain, and the Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia (IMDEA Nanociencia), Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain. rodolfo.miranda@uam.es,

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Miranda, R., Vázquez de Parga, A. Surfing ripples towards new devices. Nature Nanotech 4, 549–550 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2009.250

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