ABSTRACT
After the major efforts made and the progress achieved in CVD graphene synthesis, the real challenge in graphene devices lies in the ability to safely transfer these synthesized layers to a target substrate. The transfer is a complex process that involves many steps which are not usually fully described in the literature. This chapter will try to ll this gap by giving all the details involved in the whole graphene transfer process.
Since its discovery in 2004, graphene1 has captured the interest of the scientic community2 because of its unique chemical, mechanical, electronic, optoelectronic, and physical properties. Moreover, it has also displayed very interesting material properties, such as transparency, exibility, and biocompatibility, placing it in a front position for being used in a wide range of applications. In particular, during the past decade relevant scientic studies based on graphene physics and chemistry revealed a vast number of possible applications in many different elds like electronics,3-15 biomedicine,3,5,6,16-23 or energy storage.24-26 In parallel with the studies that were trying to explain the exceptional properties of graphene, research efforts were focused on improving graphene synthesis to overcome the limitations of the rst graphene obtaining method, mechanical exfoliation (Scotch tape method) described by Novoselov and Geim in 2004.1 Since then, other
