Magnetic-field-controlled negative differential conductance in graphene npn junction resonators
arXiv:1712.02482 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.97.115442
Abstract
Negative differential conductance (NDC), characterized by the decreasing current with increasing voltage, has attracted continuous attention for its various novel applications. The NDC typically exists in a certain range of bias voltages for a selected system and controlling the regions of NDC in curves of current versus voltage (I-V) is experimentally challenging. Here, we demonstrate an unusual magnetic-field-controlled NDC in graphene npn junction resonators. The magnetic field not only can switch on and off the NDC, but also can continuously tune the regions of the NDC in the I-V curves. In the graphene npn junction resonators, magnetic fields generate sharp and pronounced Landau-level peaks with the help of the Klein tunneling of massless Dirac fermions. A tip of scanning tunneling microscope induces a relatively shift of the Landau levels in graphene beneath the tip. Tunneling between the misaligned Landau levels results in the magnetic-field-controlled NDC that may have potential applications for future graphene-based technology.
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