Electron transmission through step- and barrier-like potentials in graphene ribbons

Details Electron transmission through step- and barrier-like potentials in graphene ribbons Electron transmission through step- and barrier-like potentials in graphene ribbons

2008-05-08

arxiv.org/abs/0805.1135v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

Edited, misprints corrected

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The list of textbook tunneling formulas is extended by deriving exact expressions for the transmission coefficient in graphene ribbons with armchair edges and the step-like and barrier-like profiles of site energies along the ribbon. These expressions are obtained by matching wave functions at the interfaces between the regions, where quasiparticles have constant but different potential energies. It is shown that for an $U_0$ high barrier and low-energy electrons and holes, the mode transmission of charge carriers in this type of ribbons is described by the textbook formula, where the constant barrier is replaced by an effective, energy-dependent barrier, $U_0\to U(E)$. For the lowest/highest electron/hole mode, $U(E)$ goes, respectively, to zero and nonzero value in metallic and semiconducting ribbons. This and other peculiarities of through-barrier/step transmission in graphene are discussed and compared with related earlier results.

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