KIC Members reveal “electrical highways” rendered by imperfect graphene

$Three dark field-transmission electron microscopy images of bilayer graphene are overlaid with colors to show diffraction angles. The lines are soliton boundaries.$ July, 2013: KIC members Paul McEuen, David Muller, and Jiwoong Park have imaged solitons in bilayer graphene with atomic resolution. These solitons are predicted to act as ‘electrical highways’ allowing electrons to shoot from one end of the graphene sheet to the other. Their work, published online in the June 24 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is also featured in the Cornell Chronicle (July 11).