English
Related papers

Related papers: Tunnel Valley Current Filter in the Partially Over…

200 papers

Using the tight-binding model, we investigate the valley current of the `low-bi-up' and `low-bi-low' graphene junction, where `low' and `up' are respectively the lower and upper graphene layers extended from the central AB stacking bilayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-01 Ryo Tamura

We theoretically study valley-filtering in pristine graphene irradiated by bicircular counter-rotating laser drive. The dynamical symmetry of the graphene and laser drive disrupts graphene's inversion symmetry, which results distinct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Rekha Kumari , Gopal Dixit , Arijit Kundu

We study theoretically the electron current across a monolayer graphene/hexagonal boron nitride/bilayer graphene tunnelling junction in an external magnetic field perpendicular to the layers. We show that change in effective tunnelling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 J. J . P. Thompson , D. J. Leech , M. Mucha-Kruczyński

We consider tunneling transport between two parallel graphene sheets where one is a single-layer sample and the other one a bilayer. In the presence of an in-plane magnetic field, the interplay between combined energy and momentum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-25 L Pratley , U. Zuelicke

We propose a device in which a sheet of graphene is coupled to a Weyl semimetal, allowing for the physical access to the study of tunneling from two-dimensional to three dimensional massless Dirac fermions. Due to the reconstructed band…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-17 Ahmed Khalifa , Ribhu K. Kaul , Efrat Shimshoni , Herbert A. Fertig , Ganpathy Murthy

We discuss valley current, which is carried by quasiparticles in graphene. We show that the valley current arises owing to a peculiar term in the electron-phonon collision integral that mixes the scalar and vector gauge-field-like vertices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Ankang Liu , Alexander M. Finkel'stein

Topological materials may exhibit Hall-like currents flowing transversely to the applied electric field even in the absence of a magnetic field. In graphene superlattices, which have broken inversion symmetry, topological currents…

Valley-polarized currents can be generated by local straining of multi-terminal graphene devices. The pseudo-magnetic field created by the deformation allows electrons from only one valley to transmit and a current of electrons from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-18 S. P. Milovanovic , F. M. Peeters

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.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Xing-Tao An , Wang Yao

The generation of a fully valley-polarized current (FVPC) in bulk graphene is a fundamental goal in valleytronics. To this end, we investigate valley-dependent transport through a strained graphene modulated by a finite magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-04 Yu Song , Feng Zhai , Yong Guo

In addition to electron charge and spin, novel materials host another degree of freedom, the valley. For a junction composed of valley filter sandwiched by two normal terminals, we focus on the valley efficiency under disorder with two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Shu-guang Cheng , Jiaojiao Zhou , Hua Jiang , Qing-Feng Sun

With its two degenerate valleys at the Fermi level, the band structure of graphene provides the opportunity to develop unconventional electronic applications. Herein, we show that electron and hole quasiparticles in graphene can be filtered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-04-29 Daniel Gunlycke , Carter T. White

Topologically protected zero-line modes appear at the interface between two regions of the monolayer graphene in quantum anomalous Hall phase with different Chern number. In the presence of staggered sublattice potential, the band gaps of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Ma Luo

Probing and controlling the valley degree of freedom in graphene systems by transport measurements has been a major challenge to fully exploit the unique properties of this two-dimensional material. In this theoretical work, we show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Feng-Wu Chen , Nin-Yuan Lue , Mei-Yin Chou , Yu-Shu G. Wu

We propose a simple, yet highly efficient and robust device for producing valley polarized current in graphene. The device comprises of two distinct components; a region of uniform uniaxial strain, adjacent to an out-of-plane magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-08-06 T. Fujita , M. B. A. Jalil , S. G. Tan

We show that the optical excitation of graphene with polarized light leads to the pure valley current where carriers in the valleys counterflow. The current in each valley originates from asymmetry of optical transitions and electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. E. Golub , S. A. Tarasenko , M. V. Entin , L. I. Magarill

Valley filtering processes have been explored in different graphene-based configurations and scenarios to control transport responses. Here we propose graphene multi-terminal set-ups properly designed to obtain valley filtered currents in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Vanessa Torres , Daiara Faria , Andrea Latgé

Dirac electrons in graphene have a valley degree of freedom that is being explored as a carrier of information. In that context of "valleytronics" one seeks to coherently manipulate the valley index. Here we show that reflection from a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 C. W. J. Beenakker , N. V. Gnezdilov , E. Dresselhaus , V. P. Ostroukh , Y. Herasymenko , I. Adagideli , J. Tworzydlo

We recently shown, using tight-binding calculations, that nonequilibrium valley polarization can be realized in graphene, when the current is injected through "valley filter": a ballistic point contact with zigzag edges. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 Adam Rycerz

We propose a scheme to trap and filter electrons, valley dependently, on a scale beyond the diffraction limit, in a gapped Dirac system using a circularly polarized light beam and a microscale metallic resonator. The main mechanism allowing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Kevin Dini , Ivan V. Iorsh , Andrey Bogdanov , Ivan A. Shelykh
‹ Prev 1 2 3 10 Next ›