Graphene Valley Filter Using a Line Defect
Open Access
- 28 March 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 106 (13), 136806
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.106.136806
Abstract
With its two degenerate valleys at the Fermi level, the band structure of graphene provides the opportunity to develop unconventional electronic applications. Herein, we show that electron and hole quasiparticles in graphene can be filtered according to which valley they occupy without the need to introduce confinement. The proposed valley filter is based on scattering off a recently observed line defect in graphene. Quantum transport calculations show that the line defect is semitransparent and that quasiparticles arriving at the line defect with a high angle of incidence are transmitted with a valley polarization near 100%.Keywords
Funding Information
- Office of Naval Research
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