The two-terminal magnetotransport of a single graphene layer was investigated up to a field of 55 T. The dependence of the electron transmission probability at the organo-metallic interface between the graphene and the metal electrodes was studied as a function of filling factor and electron density. A resistance-plateau spanning several tens of tesla width was observed. We argue that this plateau originates from an augmented sublattice spin-splitting due to the high surface-impurity concentration of the graphene layer. At electron densities close to the Dirac point, fingerprints of a thermally activated energy gap were observed.

Carbon monoxide molecules in their electronic, vibrational, and rotational ground state are highly attractive for trapping experiments. The optical or ac electric traps that can be envisioned for these molecules will be very shallow, however, with depths in the sub-milliKelvin range. Here we outline that the required samples of translationally cold CO (X 1 Σ + , v =0, N =0) molecules can be produced after Stark deceleration of a beam of laser-prepared metastable CO (a 3 Π1) molecules followed by optical transfer of the metastable species to the ground state via perturbed levels in the A 1 Π state. The optical transfer scheme is experimentally demonstrated and the radiative lifetimes and the electric dipole moments of the intermediate levels are determined.