Physics – Condensed Matter – Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Scientific paper
2010-08-22
Nature Nanotechnology 6, 222-225 (2011)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
supplementary materal at http://marcuslab.harvard.edu/papers/OG_SI.pdf
Scientific paper
10.1038/nnano.2011.3
Ballistic semiconductor structures have allowed the realization of optics-like phenomena in electronics, including magnetic focusing and lensing. An extension that appears unique to graphene is to use both n and p carrier types to create electronic analogs of optical devices having both positive and negative indices of refraction. Here, we use gate-controlled density with both p and n carrier types to demonstrate the analog of the fiber-optic guiding in graphene. Two basic effects are investigated: (1) bipolar p-n junction guiding, based on the principle of angle-selective transmission though the graphene p-n interface, and (2) unipolar fiber-optic guiding, using total internal reflection controlled by carrier density. Modulation of guiding efficiency through gating is demonstrated and compared to numerical simulations, which indicates that interface roughness limits guiding performance, with few-nanometer effective roughness extracted. The development of p-n and fiber-optic guiding in graphene may lead to electrically reconfigurable wiring in high-mobility devices.
Low Tony
Lundstrom Mark S.
Marcus Charles M.
Williams Richard J.
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