Industrialization of Graphene to Enable Next-Generation Processing
As architectures grow smaller, performance is increasingly governed not by what happens within materials but at the interfaces between them. The opportunity for 2D materials is not as a transistor channel, but as an atomically thin interface material which can enable the industry to address thermal, electrical, process and sensing challenges that existing materials cannot.
AI compute is already exposing the limits: thermal hotspots that local cooling cannot reach, contact and barrier losses at sub-1.5 nm nodes, the accumulating thermal and electrical penalties of chiplet and HBM integration, and process and metrology requirements that have moved from aspirational to mandatory.
Qualified semiconductor manufacturing processes are not a natural fit for the integration of graphene and other 2D materials. Nevertheless, use cases are emerging that demonstrate the feasibility of integrating graphene into workflows to achieve real world performance enhancements. If the industry wants to be prepared to address the future challenges, the time to start is now. Collaboration is necessary to develop the processes and tools required to meet the needs of the industry. General Graphene now has a platform of scalable, consistent high quality graphene to build the foundation for this work.
BIOGRAPHY
Brian Larabee serves as Chief Commercial Officer at General Graphene, driving the industrialization and commercial scale-up of CVD graphene. With 36 years in engineered materials — spanning companies from Rogers Corporation, Rohm and Haas and Honeywell Electronic Materials to Koch Industries and Baxter Healthcare — he brings deep expertise in taking advanced materials from development to high-volume markets across semiconductors, aerospace and defense, and medical diagnostics.