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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 type | Article | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title | Physical Review Letters (PRL) | ||||||
| Publisher: | American Physical Society | ||||||
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| Volume: | 118 | ||||||
| Page Range: | 066801 | ||||||
| Date | 2017 | ||||||
| Institutions | Physics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Klaus Richter | ||||||
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | 500 Science > 530 Physics | ||||||
| Status | Published | ||||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes | ||||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-350118 | ||||||
| Item ID | 35011 |
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