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Planar Heterostructure Graphene -- Narrow-Gap Semiconductor -- Graphene

Materials Science 2015-05-13 v2 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

We investigate a planar heterostructure composed of two graphene films separated by a narrow-gap semiconductor ribbon. We show that there is no the Klein paradox when the Dirac points of the Brillouin zone of graphene are in a band gap of a narrow-gap semiconductor. There is the energy range depending on an angle of incidence, in which the above-barrier damped solution exists. Therefore, this heterostructure is a "filter" transmitting particles in a certain range of angles of incidence upon a potential barrier. We discuss the possibility of an application of this heterostructure as a "switch".

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@article{arxiv.0808.1981,
  title  = {Planar Heterostructure Graphene -- Narrow-Gap Semiconductor -- Graphene},
  author = {P. V. Ratnikov and A. P. Silin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1981},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, 2 figures

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