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interview Detecting light with graphene Will graphene optoelectronics be able to displace silicon technology? Thomas Mueller explains that a new design of graphene photodetector is showing great promise. ■ What is the current situation for we managed to scale up the photodetector graphene research? area by using an arrangement of titanium h e work done at IBM by Fengnian Xia, and palladium electrodes. In this way, Phaedon Avouris and myself is concerned we were able to obtain photocurrents as with exploiting graphene as a photodetector. large as 0.2 mA, allowing for the accurate Until recently, graphene device research detection of 10 Gbit s–1 optical data streams. has mainly concentrated on electronics, not Our device hence constitutes the i rst optoelectronics. h is is driven by the fact that practical graphene photodetector. Using graphene of ers the possibility of creating this design, the detector can in principle be high-frequency transistors that are faster M scaled to millimetre-size areas, making it B than today’s state-of-the-art high-electron- I also interesting for mid- to far-infrared or mobility tra