Publications
Electron collimation at van der Waals domain walls in bilayer graphene
H. M. Abdullah, D. R. da Costa, H. Bahlouli, A. Chaves, F. M. Peeters, and B. Van Duppen
Phys. Rev. B 100, 045137
2019
Abstract
We show that a domain wall separating single-layer graphene and AA-stacked bilayer graphene (AA-BLG) can be used to generate highly collimated electron beams which can be steered by a magnetic field. Two distinct configurations are studied, namely, locally delaminated AA-BLG and terminated AA-BLG whose terminal edge types are assumed to be either zigzag or armchair. We investigate the electron scattering using semiclassical dynamics and verify the results independently with wave-packet dynamics simulations. We find that the proposed system supports two distinct types of collimated beams that correspond to the lower and upper cones in AA-BLG. Our computational results also reveal that collimation is robust against the number of layers connected to AA-BLG and terminal edges.
CONDENSED MATTER THEORY GROUP