Wafer-Scale Single-Crystalline Monolayer Graphene
Authors:
Johanna Huhtasaari,
Joyal Jain Palakulam,
Awse Salha,
Per Hyldgaard,
Elsebeth Schröder,
Magnus Hårdensson Berntsen,
Oscar Tjernberg,
Manasi Shah,
Rodrigo Martinez-Duarte,
Hans He,
Johannes Hofmann,
Thilo Bauch,
Naveen Shetty,
Samuel Lara-Avila
Abstract:
Producing large-area single-crystalline graphene is key to realizing its full potential in advanced applications, including twistronics. Yet, controlling graphene growth kinetics to avoid grain boundaries or multilayer growth remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate single-crystalline graphene free from multilayer domains via one-step delamination of epitaxial graphene from silicon carbide (SiC).…
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Producing large-area single-crystalline graphene is key to realizing its full potential in advanced applications, including twistronics. Yet, controlling graphene growth kinetics to avoid grain boundaries or multilayer growth remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate single-crystalline graphene free from multilayer domains via one-step delamination of epitaxial graphene from silicon carbide (SiC). This is enabled by a specific surface reconstruction of 4H-SiC(0001) achieved in our growth conditions. High crystalline quality is confirmed by the observation of the half-integer quantum Hall effect -- the hallmark of monolayer graphene -- in near cm-sized crystals. The scalability of our process, explored with 4''-wafers, represents an advance toward large-scale integration of high-performance graphene applications.
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Submitted 29 November, 2025;
originally announced December 2025.