Walter A. de Heer, Georgia Institute of Technology (IMAGE)

Georgia Institute of Technology

Walter A. de Heer, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Walter A. de Heer, professor of physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is known worldwide as the first to conceptualize the use of graphene for electronics, back in 2001. Currently de Heer's lab is working on developing epitaxial graphene as a replacement for silicon in electronics.

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