title: 2011–2012 — Post-Nobel acceleration description: CVD-on-copper, flexible demos, and the silicon-replacement slogan hitting physics limits. tags:
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Evidence: Well-supported at program level
CVD on copper plus transfer methods become the default film story. Flexible electronics, RF transistors, and photonics demos multiply. EU policy talk hardens toward a Flagship (2013).
The era’s idea — graphene replaces silicon — collides with band gap, contact resistance, and uniformity. File that ideal on theories. Do not treat a 2011 keynote as a 2026 product.