• 文献标题:   Fully valley-polarized electron beams in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   GARCIAPOMAR JL, CORTIJO A, NIETOVESPERINAS M
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  • 出版物名称:   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
  • ISSN:   0031-9007 EI 1079-7114
  • 通讯作者地址:   CSIC
  • 被引频次:   134
  • DOI:   10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.236801
  • 出版年:   2008

▎ 摘  要

We propose a device to break the valley degeneracy in graphene and produce fully valley-polarized currents that can be either split or collimated to a high degree in a experimentally controllable way. The proposal combines two recent seminal ideas: negative refraction and the concept of valleytronics in graphene. The key new ingredient lies in the use of the specular shape of the Fermi surface of the two valleys when a high electronic density is induced by a gate voltage (trigonal warping). By changing the gate voltage in a n-p-n junction of a graphene transistor, the device can be used as a valley beam splitter, where each of the beams belong to a different valley, or as a collimator. The result is demonstrated through an optical analogy with two-dimensional photonic crystals.