Physical Society Colloquium

You can never be too thin or too rich:
Recent experiments on Graphene

Horst Stormer
Nobel Laureate

Columbia University & Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent

Beginning at McGill in 1947, the unusual properties of graphene, a single sheet of graphite have long fascinated the minds of theorists. Alas, this ultimate two-dimensional material was not created until 2005, employing a surprisingly primitive Scotch Tape extraction technique. Since then, more than 500 papers have been published on the subject; still mostly theoretical, but experiments are showing up too.

This talk will review some of the fascinating properties of graphene and focus on the quantum Hall effect and far infra-red measurements in high magnetic field.