Electron collimation at van der Waals domain walls in bilayer graphene

H. M. Abdullah, D. R. da Costa, H. Bahlouli, A. Chaves, F. M. Peeters, and B. Van Duppen
Phys. Rev. B 100, 045137 – Published 25 July 2019

Abstract

We show that a domain wall separating single-layer graphene and AA-stacked bilayer graphene (AA-BLG) can be used to generate highly collimated electron beams which can be steered by a magnetic field. Two distinct configurations are studied, namely, locally delaminated AA-BLG and terminated AA-BLG whose terminal edge types are assumed to be either zigzag or armchair. We investigate the electron scattering using semiclassical dynamics and verify the results independently with wave-packet dynamics simulations. We find that the proposed system supports two distinct types of collimated beams that correspond to the lower and upper cones in AA-BLG. Our computational results also reveal that collimation is robust against the number of layers connected to AA-BLG and terminal edges.

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  • Received 19 February 2019
  • Revised 11 June 2019

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.100.045137

©2019 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied Physics

Authors & Affiliations

H. M. Abdullah1,2,3,*, D. R. da Costa4,†, H. Bahlouli1,2, A. Chaves4, F. M. Peeters3, and B. Van Duppen3,‡

  • 1Department of Physics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, 31261 Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
  • 2Saudi Center for Theoretical Physics, P.O. Box 32741, Jeddah 21438, Saudi Arabia
  • 3Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Groenenborgerlaan 171, B-2020 Antwerp, Belgium
  • 4Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Caixa Postal 6030, Campus do Pici, 60455-900 Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil

  • *alshehab211@gmail.com
  • diego_rabelo@fisica.ufc.br
  • ben.vanduppen@uantwerpen.be

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Vol. 100, Iss. 4 — 15 July 2019

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