Do-It-Yourself Transfer of Large-Area Graphene Using an Office Laminator and Water

We demonstrate a simple method for transferring large areas (up to A4-size sheets) of CVD graphene from copper foils onto a target substrate using a commercially available polyvinyl alcohol polymer foil as a carrier substrate and a commercial hot-roll office laminator. Through the use of terahertz time-domain spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy, large-area quantitative optical contrast mapping, and the fabrication and electrical characterisation of ~50 individual centimetre-scale van der Pauw field effect devices, we show a non-destructive technique to transfer large-area graphene with low residual doping that is scalable, economical, reproducible, easy to use, and results in less doping and transfer-induced damage than etching or electrochemical delamination transfers. We show that the copper substrate can be used multiple times with minimal loss of material and no observable reduction in graphene quality. We have additionally demonstrated transfer of multilayer hexagonal boron nitride from copper and ir...