Quandt, A.Özdoǧan, C.Ferrari, M.Speranza, G.2025-05-132025-05-1320089781424434855https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTONMW.2008.4773047https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/9904Ozdogan, Cem/0000-0002-9644-0013; Quandt, Alexander/0000-0003-0987-126X; Ferrari, Maurizio/0000-0003-3723-5957; Speranza, Giorgio/0000-0003-1478-0995We discuss a downsizing of optical components into the nanometer range. It presupposes the substitution of photons by ballistic electrons, but it also requires a simple and robust concept to assemble the analogues of basic electronic and optical components on such a tiny length scale. Here, one of the most promising candidate schemes employs graphene as a basic nanosubstrate. We elucidate the suggested behaviour of graphene as an electronic metamaterial [1], and show that other desired electronic or optical functionalities may be obtained through a patterning with sub-nanometer sized boron clusters [2]. © 2008 IEEE.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessClustersElectronic DevicesGrapheneMetamaterialsNanotechnologyPhotonic DevicesConference Object10.1109/ICTONMW.2008.47730472-s2.0-67649609967