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DIFFICULT PERFECTION. “In reality, it remains a challenge to obtain large-scale, perfect graphene. Unintentional ad-atom doping, point defects, dislocations, and grain boundaries exist in graphene.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

GOLDEN HONEYCOMB. “Graphene, a one-atom thin material with carbon atoms arranged in honeycomb lattice, at its perfect state, has a linear Dirac cone in its electronic structure exhibiting ambipolar electric field effect, high electron mobility, high thermal conductivity, and room temperature quantum hall effect.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

CARBON ALLOTROPE. “Among extreme materials, graphene, a two-dimensional semimetal with a very small overlap between conductance and valence bands, has received substantial attention and been associated with two Nobel Prizes in Physics in 2010 and 2016, respectively.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

3D ELECTRONICS. “It is now the “FinFET era.” FinFET is a three-dimensional (3D) structured semiconductor that wraps the fin-shaped gate with insulator (i.e., gate oxide) around the source and drain. This replaces the previous planar structure of an electronic switch (or technically known as a transistor), where the gate sits flat above the source and drain.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

“MOORE’S LAW has successfully predicted the scaling trend of silicon-based integrated circuits, where the technology node is shrinking while the power density is doubling every 10 years.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

MICROCHIPS. “Very large scale integration (VLSI), a process to fabricate an integrated circuit consisting of thousands of digital switches on a single chip, began in the 1970s when complex communication technologies were developing.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

START OF SEMICONDUCTORS. “The “semiconductor era” began in the second half of the twentieth century with the invention of the integrated circuit. It is termed an integrated circuit, as all electronic components and their interconnection are integrated on a silicon chip.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

CORE OF ELECTRONICS. “From a materials perspective, the basis of electronics relies on the discovery of semiconducting materials that are insulating most of the time, and their electrical conductivity can be controlled by the supply of external excitation.” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1557/s43577-021-00135-y View in LinkedIn

THE PUZZLER. “Why is CP symmetry broken, and what are its consequences? This puzzling question lies at the core of our understanding of the laws of nature and the evolution of the Universe.” (CP = charge-conjugation parity-reversal). https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01000-9 View in LinkedIn

THE KEY. “The most promising channels for indirect DM searches are those involving antimatter in the final state, e.g. elementary antiparticles such as e+, anti-p or anti-nuclei such as anti-D, anti-3He.” (DM = dark matter). https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10686-021-09708-w.pdf View in LinkedIn