Tremendous advancements in solid-state electrical and photonic devices have been made in recent years, owing to exciting discoveries in new material innovations and integration techniques. However, many challenges still remain to achieve the ultimate goal of ubiquitous electronics. Ubiquitous electronics, meaning electronics everywhere, requires that the constituent devices need to be ultracompact, flexible, and self-powered while being able to provide multifunctionality. To achieve this vision, many different functional solid-state materials must be heterogeneous integrated together on a single platform, such as semiconductors and complex-oxides.

In this seminar, we will discuss a novel epitaxial lift-off technique, called remote epitaxy, which uses graphene as an epitaxial lift-off interface that allows nearly universal creation of single-crystalline thin-film membranes. We further show several applications of this technique to create record breaking magnetoelectric devices, as well as discuss other advanced applications such as biomedical sensors and quantum information processing platforms. This work sets the stage for heterogenous integration of nearly all functional solid-state materials, ultimately towards realizing ubiquitous electronics and photonics.