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We study the transport properties of Dirac fermions through gapped graphene through a magnetic barrier irradiated by a laser field oscillating in time. We use Floquet theory and the solution of Weber's differential equation to determine the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-27 Rachid El Aitouni , Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Michael Schreiber

We study the transmission probability of Dirac fermions in graphene scattered by a triangular double barrier potential in the presence of an external magnetic field. Our system made of two triangular potential barrier regions separated by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-24 Miloud Mekkaoui , Ahmed Jellal , Hocine Bahlouli

When a single-layer graphene sheet is contacted with metallic electrodes, tunnel barriers are formed as a result of the doping of graphene by the metal in the contact region. If the Fermi energy level is modulated by a gate voltage, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-11 Gheorghe Sorin Paraoanu

We study the tunneling effect of Dirac fermions in a graphene sheet by introducing a potential barrier in a region of width $D$ exposed to laser field. This sheet is placed on a boron nitride/ferromagnetic substrate such as cobalt or…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-06 Rachid El Aitouni , Ahmed Jellal , Pablo Díaz , David Laroze

We developed the theory of elastic electron tunneling through a potential barrier driven by a strong high-frequency electromagnetic field. It is demonstrated that the driven barrier can be considered as a stationary two-barrier potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-13 M. V. Boev , V. M. Kovalev , O. V. Kibis

A two-dimensional periodic array of scatterers has been introduced to a single layer of graphene in the presence of an external magnetic field perpendicular to the graphene layer. The eigenvalue equation for such a system has been solved…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Godfrey Gumbs , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Paula Fekete , Liubov Zhemchuzhna

We investigated theoretically the transmission properties of Dirac Fermions tunneling through a periodically (sinusoidal and rectangular) driven electrostatic barrier in Monolayer graphene. For the time harmonic potential with moderate to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-14 R. Biswas , S. Mukhopadhyay , C. Sinha

We theoretically study a current switch that exploits the phase acquired by a charge carrier as it tunnels through a potential barrier in graphene. The system acts as an interferometer based on an armchair graphene quantum ring, where the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-03 D. J. P. de Sousa , Andrey Chaves , J. M. Pereira , G. A. Farias

Dirac-electronic tunneling and nonlinear transport properties with both finite and zero energy bandgap are investigated for graphene with a tilted potential barrier under a bias. For validation, results from a finite-difference based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-04-01 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

Graphene electrodes provide a suitable alternative to metal contacts in molecular conduction nanojunctions. Here, we propose to use graphene electrodes as a platform for effective photon assisted tunneling through molecular conduction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Boris Fainberg

We study how tunneling through a potential barrier $V(x)$ can be enhanced by an additional harmonically oscillating electric field ${\mathfrak E}(t)={\mathfrak E}_0\cos(\omega t)$. To this end, we transform into the Kramers-Henneberger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Daniil Ryndyk , Christian Kohlfürst , Friedemann Queisser , Ralf Schützhold

Transport properties of massive Dirac particles are investigated through an oscillating barrier. The Floquet quasienergies related to the time-dependent potential appear both in transmission and reflection as sidebands around the incoming…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-04 Lóránt Zs. Szabó , Mihály G. Benedict , Attila Czirják , Péter Földi

We study the tunneling of Dirac fermions in graphene through a double barrier potential allowing the carriers to have an effective mass inside the barrier as generated by a lattice miss-match with the boron nitride substrate. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Hocine Bahlouli , El Bouazzaoui Choubabi , Ahmed Jellal , Miloud Mekkaoui

Using a recently developed formalism of quantization of radiation in the presence of absorbing dielectric bodies, the problem of photon tunneling through absorbing barriers is studied. The multilayer barriers are described in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Toralf Gruner , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

We have utilized the finite-difference approach to explore electron-tunneling properties in gapped graphene through various electrostatic-potential barriers changing from Gaussian to a triangular envelope function in comparison with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Farhana Anwar , Andrii Iurov , Danhong Huang , Godfrey Gumbs , Ashwani Sharma

Electron transport in graphene is along the sheet but junction devices are often made by stacking different sheets together in a "side-contact" geometry which causes the current to flow perpendicular to the sheets within the device. Such…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Xiang-Guo Li , Iek-Heng Chu , X. -G. Zhang , Hai-Ping Cheng

We have analyzed the tunneling transmission probability and electronic current density through resonant heterostructures in the presence of an external electromagnetic field. In this work, we compare two different models for a double…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Aguado , J. Inarrea , G. Platero

An exact expression of the transmission probability through a finite graphene superlattice with an arbitrary number of potential barriers $n$ is derived in two cases of the periodic potential: rectangular electric potential and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 C. Huy Pham , V. Lien Nguyen

We study the tunneling effect of Dirac fermions in a monolayer WSe$_2$ subjected to a static electrostatic barrier and irradiated by a linearly polarized laser field. Within the Floquet formalism, the time-periodic driving is incorporated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Rachid El Aitouni , Mohammed El Azar , Clarence Cortes , Pablo Díaz , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

We applied the Floquet scattering-matrix formalism to studying the electronic transport properties in a mesoscopic Dirac system. Using the method, we investigate theoretically quantum pumping driven by a series of time-periodic potentials…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-06 Zhenhua Wu , J. Li , K. S. Chand