Inhibiting Klein Tunneling in a Graphene p-n Junction without an External Magnetic Field

被引:16
|
作者
Oh, Hyungju [1 ,2 ]
Coh, Sinisa [1 ,2 ]
Son, Young-Woo [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Cohen, Marvin L. [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Berkeley, Dept Phys, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[2] Univ Calif Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Div Mat Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
[3] Korea Inst Adv Study, Hoegiro 85, Seoul 02455, South Korea
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
EPITAXIAL GRAPHENE; CHARGE-TRANSFER; TRANSPORT;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.016804
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
We study by first-principles calculations a densely packed island of organic molecules (F(4)TCNQ) adsorbed on graphene. We find that with electron doping the island naturally forms a p-n junction in the graphene sheet. For example, a doping level of similar to 3 x 10(13) electrons per cm(2) results in a p-n junction with an 800 meV electrostatic potential barrier. Unlike in a conventional p-n junction in graphene, in the case of the junction formed by an adsorbed organic molecular island we expect that the Klein tunneling is inhibited, even without an applied external magnetic field. Here Klein tunneling is inhibited by the ferromagnetic order that spontaneously occurs in the molecular island upon doping. We estimate that the magnetic barrier in the graphene sheet is around 10 mT.
引用
收藏
页数:4
相关论文
共 50 条
  • [41] Spin-Orbit Effects in Graphene p-n Junction
    Yamakage, A.
    Imura, K. -I.
    Cayssol, J.
    Kuramoto, Y.
    INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF COMPUTATIONAL METHODS IN SCIENCES AND ENGINEERING 2009 (ICCMSE 2009), 2012, 1504 : 867 - 870
  • [42] Photosensitive Graphene P-N Junction Transistors and Ternary Inverters
    Kim, Jun Beom
    Li, Jinshu
    Choi, Yongsuk
    Whang, Dongmok
    Hwang, Euyheon
    Cho, Jeong Ho
    ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, 2018, 10 (15) : 12897 - 12903
  • [43] Sharp switching behaviour in graphene nanoribbon p-n junction
    Hammam, Ahmed M. M.
    Schmidt, Marek E.
    Muruganathan, Manoharan
    Mizuta, Hiroshi
    CARBON, 2017, 121 : 399 - 407
  • [44] Nonlinear screening and ballistic transport in a graphene p-n junction
    Zhang, L. M.
    Fogler, M. M.
    PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 2008, 100 (11)
  • [45] Gate-Activated Photoresponse in a Graphene p-n Junction
    Lemme, Max C.
    Koppens, Frank H. L.
    Falk, Abram L.
    Rudner, Mark S.
    Park, Hongkun
    Levitov, Leonid S.
    Marcus, Charles M.
    NANO LETTERS, 2011, 11 (10) : 4134 - 4137
  • [46] Electronic transport properties of a tilted graphene p-n junction
    Low, Tony
    Appenzeller, Joerg
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2009, 80 (15)
  • [47] Current oscillation of snake states in graphene p-n junction
    Chen, Jiang-chai
    Xie, X. C.
    Sun, Qing-feng
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2012, 86 (03)
  • [48] Recent Advances in Graphene Homogeneous p-n Junction for Optoelectronics
    Tian, Pin
    Tang, Libin
    Teng, Kar Seng
    Xiang, Jinzhong
    Lau, Shu Ping
    ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES, 2019, 4 (07)
  • [49] Graphene n-p junction in a strong magnetic field: A semiclassical study
    Carmier, Pierre
    Lewenkopf, Caio
    Ullmo, Denis
    PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 2010, 81 (24):
  • [50] Current modulation in graphene p-n junctions with external fields
    Araujo, F. R., V
    da Costa, D. R.
    Nascimento, A. C. S.
    Pereira Jr, J. M.
    JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER, 2020, 32 (42)