Tunneling of Dirac electrons through spatial regions of finite mass
arXiv:0805.2062 · doi:10.1088/0953-8984/20/32/325221
Abstract
We study the tunneling of chiral electrons in graphene through a region where the electronic spectrum changes from the usual linear dispersion to a hyperbolic dispersion, due to the presence of a gap. It is shown that contrary to the tunneling through a potential barrier, the transmission of electrons is, in this case, smaller than one for normal incidence. This mechanism may be useful for designing electronic devices made of graphene.
arXiv comment24 pages, 14 figures
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