This special issue aims to highlight some of the different devices and applications currently being pursued. This volume of the Special Issue has 19 papers that roughly cover five subareas that are important for future applications of graphene in electronic and photonic devices, circuits, and systems. The subareas are: 1) epitaxial growth of graphene; 2) single field-effect transistors (FETs), high-frequency RF mixer circuits, frequency multipliers, and oscillators; 3) multiscale modeling of graphene-based transistors; 4) graphene photonics, including plasmonic applications, graphene-based teraHertz devices, and graphene-based photodetectors; and 5) other graphene-based devices and applications such as resistive memory, on-chip interconnects, microelectromechanical systems, and graphene bioelectronics. The papers are briefly summarized here.

Provides an overview of the technical articles and features presented in this issue.

This paper describes a smart-pixel array technology that is being developed at Honeywell for use in chip-to-chip optical interconnections based on free-space optics. The technology combines large-scale, two-dimensional arrays of optoelectronic and microoptical elements with VLSI electronics to enable high-density, high-speed interchip input/output capability in the optical domain. We have demonstrated prototype modules with 16/spl times/16 and 32/spl times/32 emitter and interleaved detector arrays.