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Electron collimation at van der Waals domain walls in bilayer graphene

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2019-07-31 v1

Abstract

We show that a domain wall separating single layer graphene (SLG) and AA-stacked bilayer graphene (AA-BLG) can be used to generate highly collimated electron beams which can be steered by a magnetic field. Such system exists in two distinct configurations, namely, locally delaminated AA-BLG and terminated AA-BLG whose terminal edge-type can be either zigzag or armchair. We investigate the electron scattering using semi-classical dynamics and verify the results independently with wave-packed dynamics simulations. We find that the proposed system supports two distinct types of collimated beams that correspond to the lower and upper cones in AA-BLG. Our computational results also reveal that collimation is robust against the number of layers connected to AA-BLG and terminal edges.

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@article{arxiv.1907.06827,
  title  = {Electron collimation at van der Waals domain walls in bilayer graphene},
  author = {Hasan M. Abdullah and D. R. da Costa and H. Bahlouli and A. Chaves and F. M. Peeters and Ben Van Duppen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.06827},
  year   = {2019}
}

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12 pages, 11 figures