University of California

Annemarie Kohl

Andreas Karl Schmid

Alessandra Lanzara

Chris Jozwiak

Choonkyu Hwang

Xiaozhu Yu

A method is described herein for the providing of high quality graphene layers on silicon carbide wafers in a thermal process. With two wafers facing each other in close proximity, in a first vacuum heating stage, while maintained at a vacuum of around 10Torr, the wafer temperature is raised to about 1500&#xb0; C., whereby silicon evaporates from the wafer leaving a carbon rich surface, the evaporated silicon trapped in the gap between the wafers, such that the higher vapor pressure of silicon above each of the wafers suppresses further silicon evaporation. As the temperature of the wafers is raised to about 1530&#xb0; C. or more, the carbon atoms self assemble themselves into graphene.

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Benediktbeuern, Germany

Annemarie Kohl