• 文献标题:   Graphene Valley Filter Using a Line Defect
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GUNLYCKE D, WHITE CT
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007
  • 通讯作者地址:   USN
  • 被引频次:   281
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.136806
  • 出版年:   2011

▎ 摘  要

With its two degenerate valleys at the Fermi level, the band structure of graphene provides the opportunity to develop unconventional electronic applications. Herein, we show that electron and hole quasiparticles in graphene can be filtered according to which valley they occupy without the need to introduce confinement. The proposed valley filter is based on scattering off a recently observed line defect in graphene. Quantum transport calculations show that the line defect is semitransparent and that quasiparticles arriving at the line defect with a high angle of incidence are transmitted with a valley polarization near 100%.