Photon-assisted resonant chiral tunneling through a bilayer graphene barrier

The electronic transport property of a bilayer graphene is investigated under the effect of an electromagnetic field. We deduce an expression for the conductance by solving the Dirac equation. This conductance depends on the barrier height for graphene and the energy of the induced photons. A resona...

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Veröffentlicht in:Progress in physics (Rehoboth, N.M.) N.M.), 2011-01, Vol.2011 (1), p.112
Hauptverfasser: Mina, Aziz N, Phillips, Adel H
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The electronic transport property of a bilayer graphene is investigated under the effect of an electromagnetic field. We deduce an expression for the conductance by solving the Dirac equation. This conductance depends on the barrier height for graphene and the energy of the induced photons. A resonance oscillatory behavior of the conductance is observed. These oscillations are strongly depends on the barrier height for chiral tunneling through graphene. This oscillatory behavior might be due to the interference of different central band and sidebands of graphene states. The present investigation is very important for the application of bilayer graphene in photodetector devices, for example, far-infrared photodevices and ultrafast lasers.
ISSN:1555-5534
1555-5615