Graphene Optical Properties

2008

Fine Structure Constant Defines Visual Transparency of Graphene

Science 320, 1308 (2008)

R. R. Nair, P. Blake, A. N. Grigorenko, K. S. Novoselov, T. J. Booth, T. Stauber, N. M. R. Peres, & A. K. Geim

There are few phenomena in condensed matter physics that are defined only by the fundamental constants and do not depend on material parameters. Examples are the resistivity quantum, h/e2, that appears in a variety of transport experiments, including the quantum Hall effect and universal conductance fluctuations, and the magnetic flux quantum, h/2e, playing an important role in the physics of superconductivity (h is Planck’s constant and e the electron charge).

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