Electronic Highways in Bilayer Graphene

Details Electronic Highways in Bilayer Graphene Electronic Highways in Bilayer Graphene

2011-07-22

arxiv.org/abs/1107.4550v1

Nano Letters 2011, 11 (8), pp 3453 - 3459

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

8 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1021/nl201941f

Bilayer graphene with an interlayer potential difference has an energy gap and, when the potential difference varies spatially, topologically protected one-dimensional states localized along the difference's zero-lines. When disorder is absent, electronic travel directions along zero-line trajectories are fixed by valley Hall properties. Using the Landauer-B\"uttiker formula and the non-equilibrium Green's function technique we demonstrate numerically that collisions between electrons traveling in opposite directions, due to either disorder or changes in path direction, are strongly suppressed. We find that extremely long mean free paths of the order of hundreds of microns can be expected in relatively clean samples. This finding suggests the possibility of designing low power nanoscale electronic devices in which transport paths are controlled by gates which alter the inter-layer potential landscape.

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