- In December 2020, a novel, intricate industrial-grade reactor for graphene and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), producing 200 mm epi-wafers, has been developed, produced, and installed by AIXTRON. The innovative CVD tool was developed as a component of the GIMMIK research project and has just started using. In order to identify weak points and develop strategies to get rid of error sources, the GIMMIK project intends to evaluate the manufacture of graphene layers under industrial settings
- In August 2020, Researchers from Cornell University recently created a tiny magnetic field sensor that can operate over a wider temperature range than previous sensors by sandwiching ultrathin graphene and hexagonal boron nitride together. This sensor can detect minute changes in magnetic fields that would otherwise be lost in a larger magnetic environment. In Nowack's lab, scanning probe management for magnetic imaging is the main focus. Superconducting quantum interference device, or SQUID, is one of their go-to probes that performs well in low temperatures and weak magnetic fields
