• 文献标题:   Feasibility of a drift-induced instability in modulated graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   HUSSAIN MS, RASUL B, NIZAMANI AH, TAHIR M
  • 作者关键词:   graphene, weak modulation, currentinduced instability
  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICA ELOWDIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS NANOSTRUCTURES
  • ISSN:   1386-9477 EI 1873-1759
  • 通讯作者地址:   Univ Sargodha
  • 被引频次:   0
  • DOI:   10.1016/j.physe.2013.09.010
  • 出版年:   2014

▎ 摘  要

We examine the feasibility of a drift-induced instability of Dirac fermions in monolayer graphene in a weak periodic potential, taking into account of a steady current. In this work, we treat magnetic field induced Landau quantization including the effects of drift induced current (an in-plane dc electric field), and analyze both the inter-and the intra-Landau band aspects of the magnetoplasmon spectrum. We employ the framework of self-consistent-field approximation to determine the plasmon spectrum. The existence of the drift induced instability regions in the intra-Landau band magnetoplasmon spectrum as a function of inverse magnetic field is shown and discussed. The unstable intra-Landau band plasmon excitation could be a potential source of THz radiation with electronic device applications. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.