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Liu, Ming-Hao ; Gorini, Cosimo ; Richter, Klaus

Creating and Steering Highly Directional Electron Beams in Graphene

Liu, Ming-Hao, Gorini, Cosimo and Richter, Klaus (2017) Creating and Steering Highly Directional Electron Beams in Graphene. Physical Review Letters (PRL) 118, 066801.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 02 Jan 2017 12:49
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.35011


Abstract

We put forward a concept to create highly collimated, nondispersive electron beams in pseudorelativistic Dirac materials such as graphene or topological insulator surfaces. Combining negative refraction and Klein collimation at a parabolic pn junction, the proposed lens generates beams, as narrow as the focal length, that stay focused over scales of several microns and can be steered by a ...

We put forward a concept to create highly collimated, nondispersive electron beams in pseudorelativistic Dirac materials such as graphene or topological insulator surfaces. Combining negative refraction and Klein collimation at a parabolic pn junction, the proposed lens generates beams, as narrow as the focal length, that stay focused over scales of several microns and can be steered by a magnetic field without losing collimation. We demonstrate the lens capabilities by applying it to two paradigmatic settings of graphene electron optics: We propose a setup for observing high-resolution angle-dependent Klein tunneling, and, exploiting the intimate quantum-to-classical correspondence of these focused electron waves, we consider high-fidelity transverse magnetic focusing accompanied by simulations for current mapping through scanning gate microscopy. Our proposal opens up new perspectives for next-generation graphene electron optics experiments.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlePhysical Review Letters (PRL)
Publisher:American Physical Society
Volume:118
Page Range:066801
Date2017
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Klaus Richter
Identification Number
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1608.01730arXiv ID
10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.066801DOI
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-350118
Item ID35011

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