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Graphene electrons feature a pair of massless Dirac cones of opposite pseudospin chirality at two valleys. Klein tunneling refers to the intriguing capability of these chiral electrons to penetrate through high and wide potential barrier.…

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We investigate the scattering of a wave packet describing low-energy electrons in graphene by a time-dependent finite step potential barrier. Our results demonstrate that, after Klein tunneling through the barrier, the electron acquires an…

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Electron's tunneling through potential barrier in monolayer and bilayer graphene lattices is investigated by using full tight-binding model. Emphasis is placed on the resonance tunneling feature and inter-valley scattering probability. It…

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We show that superlattices based on zero-gap semiconductors such as graphene and mercury telluride exhibit characteristic Bloch--Zener oscillations that emerge from the coherent superposition of Bloch oscillations and multiple Zener…

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We study quasi-particle transmission through an $n $-$p$ junction in a graphene irradiated by an electromagnetic field (EF). In the absence of EF the electronic spectrum of undoped graphene is gapless, and one may expect the perfect…

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We investigate the gap in the single-electron spectrum of twisted bilayer graphene. In a perfect infinite lattice of a twisted bilayer, the gap varies exponentially in response to weak changes of the twist angle. Such a large sensitivity…

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We investigate spin-dependent transmission in a curved graphene superlattice of $N$ cells where each one is made up of four regions. The first is concave, and the third is convex, two arcs of circles separated by a distance $d$ from flat…

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Electronic analogue of generalized Goos-H\"{a}nchen shifts is investigated in the monolayer graphene superlattice with one-dimensional periodic potentials of square barriers. It is found that the lateral shifts for the electron beam…

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Subwavelength aperture arrays in thin metal films can enable enhanced transmission of light and matter (atom) waves. The phenomenon relies on resonant excitation and interference of the plasmon or matter waves on the metal surface. We show…

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The influence of a rectangular potential barrier on the quantum transport of fermions in silicene is explored. Specifically, analytical solutions are presented to derive transmission and reflection probabilities together with conductance.…

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We study the behavior of charge carriers in graphene in inhomogeneous perpendicular magnetic fields. We consider two types of one-dimensional magnetic profiles, uniform in one direction: a sequence of N magnetic barriers, and a sequence of…

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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…

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We compute the transmission of an electron through an impurity in polyacene. An analytical expression for the transmission coefficient is found. For simplicity the disorder is confined to a single unit cell, but the generalization to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-19 N. M. R. Peres , F. Sols

We investigate the electronic Bloch oscillation in bilayer graphene gradient superlattices using transfer matrix method. By introducing two kinds of gradient potentials of square barriers along electrons propagation direction, we find that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 Hemeng Cheng , Changan Li , Tianxing Ma , Li-Gang Wang , Yun Song , Hai-Qing Lin

The peculiar nature of electron scattering in graphene is among many exciting theoretical predictions for the physical properties of this material. To investigate electron scattering properties in a graphene plane, we have created a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-06-19 B. Huard , J. A. Sulpizio , N. Stander , K. Todd , B. Yang , D. Goldhaber-Gordon

Spectral and transport properties of electrons in confined phosphorene systems are investigated in a five hopping parameter tight-binding model, using analytical and numerical techniques. The main emphasis is on the properties of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 B. Ostahie , A. Aldea

A model of a superlattice consisting of alternating strips of single-layer and bilayer graphene is proposed, whose parameters of the energy spectrum can be controlled by changing the external electric field perpendicular to the surface of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-16 V. L. Abdrakhmanov , P. V. Badikova D. V. Zav'yalov , V. I. Konchenkov , S. V. Kryuchkov

We study the electronic transmission through a graphene bilayer in the presence of an applied bias between layers. We consider different geometries involving interfaces between both a monolayer and a bilayer and between two bilayers. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Johan Nilsson , A. H. Castro Neto , F. Guinea , N. M. R. Peres

We review the energy spectrum and transport properties of several types of one- dimensional superlattices (SLs) on single-layer and bilayer graphene. In single-layer graphene, for certain SL parameters an electron beam incident on a SL is…

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