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Chiral tunneling in trilayer graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2015-06-04 v1

Abstract

We study the effect of chiral-tunneling in Bernal and Rombhohedral stacked trilayer-graphene (3LG). Based on the chirality of the electronic bands, at the K-point, (Rombhohedral) Bernal-3LG exhibits 100% (50%) transparency across a heterojunction. Utilizing this property, we further investigate the effect of electron collimation in 3LG. Due to the difference in the Berry's phase, we show that, Rombhohedral-3LG is a better electron collimator, compared to monolayer and Bernal-bilayer graphene. Since, Bernal-3LG can be decomposed into two separate channels consisting of a monolayer and a modified Bernal-bilayer graphene; the Bernal-3LG is weaker electron collimator, compared to Rombhohedral-3LG.

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@article{arxiv.1204.0961,
  title  = {Chiral tunneling in trilayer graphene},
  author = {S. Bala Kumar and Jing Guoa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.0961},
  year   = {2015}
}

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APL, 2012; http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3703758