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Tunable zero-energy transmission resonances in shifted graphene bilayer

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics 2014-02-28 v1

Abstract

A graphene bilayer is known to perfectly reflect normally incident electrons due to their chirality. This is similar to Klein tunneling, which, in a monolayer, is instead responsible for perfect transmission at normal incidence. Stacking defaults turn each parabolic band crossing of a bilayer into pairs of Dirac cones. Here we show that, surprisingly, a stacking default (or shift) in a bilayer can result in perfect {\it transmission} at normal incidence as a result of Fabry-P\'erot type resonances {\it at zero-energy}. These constructive interferences only happen for a specific orientation of the Dirac cones with respect to the incident electron and for quantized values of their separation in reciprocal space. Our results provide a way to control transmission resonances in undoped graphene bilayer structure by adjusting the layer stacking.

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@article{arxiv.1311.3968,
  title  = {Tunable zero-energy transmission resonances in shifted graphene bilayer},
  author = {A. Daboussi and L. Mandhour and J. N. Fuchs and S. Jaziri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.3968},
  year   = {2014}
}

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10 pages, 9 figures