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Although electrons and photons are intrinsically different, importing useful concepts in optics to electronics performing similar functions has been actively pursued over the last two decades. In particular, collimation of an electron beam…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-09-11 Cheol-Hwan Park , Young-Woo Son , Li Yang , Marvin L. Cohen , Steven G. Louie

Metal intercalation in epitaxial graphene enables the emergence of proximity-induced superconductivity and modified quantum transport properties. However, systematic transport studies of intercalated graphene have been hindered by…

Electron-electron interactions play a critical role in many condensed matter phenomena, and it is tempting to find a way to control them by changing the interactions' strength. One possible approach is to place a studied system in proximity…

An imaging system functioning as a Veselago lens has been proposed based on the novel concept of photonic "hyper-crystal" -- an artificial optical medium synthesizing the properties of hyperbolic materials and photonic crystals. This…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-19 Zun Huang , Evgenii E. Narimanov

An analysis of electron transport in graphene is presented in the presence of various arrangement of delta-function like magnetic barriers. The motion through one such barrier gives an unusual non specular refraction leading to asymmetric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-09 Sankalpa Ghosh , Manish Sharma

Electrons in two-dimensional graphene sheets behave as interacting chiral Dirac fermions and have unique screening properties due to their symmetry and reduced dimensionality. By using a combination of scanning tunneling spectroscopy…

The electrostatic confinement of massless charge carriers is hampered by Klein tunneling. Circumventing this problem in graphene mainly relies on carving out nanostructures or applying electric displacement fields to open a band gap in…

Negative refraction usually demands complex structure engineering while it is very natural for massless Dirac fermions (MDFs) across the \textit{p-n} junction, this leads to Dirac electron optics. The emergent Dirac materials may exhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Shu-Hui Zhang , Wen Yang

In this paper, we exploit the metagrating paradigm to achieve coherent control of absorption and reflection in a two-port device. Employing graphene ribbon as a tunable element allows us to, for the first time, realize a reconfigurable…

Optics · Physics 2020-11-11 Ensiye Ghorbanpour , Sahar Behroozinia , Ali Abdolali

We consider quantum interference effects in carrier and photocurrent excitation in graphene using coherent electromagnetic field components at frequencies $\omega$ and $2\omega$. The response of the material at the fundamental frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 J. Rioux , J. E. Sipe , Guido Burkard

Superconductivity can be induced in a normal material via the leakage of superconducting pairs of charge carriers from an adjacent superconductor. This so-called proximity effect is markedly influenced by graphene unique electronic…

Half a century ago, Veselago proposed left-handed materials with negative permittivity and permeability, in which waves propagate with phase and group velocities in opposite directions. Significant work has been undertaken to attain this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-27 Gil-Ho Lee , Geon-Hyoung Park , Hu-Jong Lee

Using graphene as a tuneable optical material enables a series of optical devices such as switchable radar absorbers, variable infrared emissivity surfaces, or visible electrochromic devices. These devices rely on controlling the charge…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Xiaoxiao Yu , Gokhan Bakan , Hengyi Guo , M. Said Ergoktas , Pietro Steiner , Coskun Kocabas

We theoretically demonstrate the capability of a ferromagnetic-normal (FN) interface in graphene to focus an electron-wave with a certain spin direction. The essential feature is the negative refraction Klein tunneling, which is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Ali G. Moghaddam , Malek Zareyan

Massless Dirac fermions (MDFs) emerge as quasiparticles in various novel materials such as graphene and topological insulators, and they exhibit several intriguing properties, of which Veselago focusing is an outstanding example with a lot…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Shu-Hui Zhang , Wen Yang , F. M. Peeters

We investigate coherent electron dynamics in graphene, interacting with the electric field waveform of two orthogonally polarized, few-cycle laser pulses. Recently, we demonstrated that linearly polarized driving pulses lead to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 Christian Heide , Takuya Higuchi , Heiko B. Weber , Peter Hommelhoff

Electron collimation via a graphene pn-junction allows electrostatic control of ballistic electron trajectories akin to that of an optical circuit. Similar manipulation of novel correlated electronic phases in twisted-bilayer graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Wei Ren , Xi Zhang , Ziyan Zhu , Moosa Khan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Efthimios Kaxiras , Mitchell Luskin , Ke Wang

Electrons transmitted across a ballistic semiconductor junction undergo refraction, analogous to light rays across an optical boundary. A pn junction theoretically provides the equivalent of a negative index medium, enabling novel electron…

Graphene photonics has emerged as a promising platform for providing desirable optical functionality. However, graphene's monolayer-scale thickness fundamentally restricts the available light matter interaction, posing a critical design…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-11 PoHan Chang , Charles Lin , Amr S. Helmy

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