• 文献标题:   Absorptive pinhole collimators for ballistic Dirac fermions in graphene
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   BARNARD AW, HUGHES A, SHARPE AL, WATANABE K, TANIGUCHI T, GOLDHABERGORDON D
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  • 出版物名称:   NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
  • ISSN:   2041-1723
  • 通讯作者地址:   Stanford Univ
  • 被引频次:   14
  • DOI:   10.1038/ncomms15418
  • 出版年:   2017

▎ 摘  要

Ballistic electrons in solids can have mean free paths far larger than the smallest features patterned by lithography. This has allowed development and study of solid-state electronoptical devices such as beam splitters and quantum point contacts, which have informed our understanding of electron flow and interactions. Recently, high-mobility graphene has emerged as an ideal two-dimensional semimetal that hosts unique chiral electron-optical effects due to its honeycomb crystalline lattice. However, this chiral transport prevents the simple use of electrostatic gates to define electron-optical devices in graphene. Here we present a method of creating highly collimated electron beams in graphene based on collinear pairs of slits, with absorptive sidewalls between the slits. By this method, we achieve beams with angular width 18 degrees or narrower, and transmission matching classical ballistic predictions.