Quantum interference and Klein tunnelling in graphene heterojunctions
By A. Young, Philip Kim. Nature Physics, 2008
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The observation of oscillations in the conductance characteristics of narrow graphene p–n-junctions confirms their ability to collimate ballistic carriers. Moreover, the phase of these oscillations at low magnetic field suggests the occurrence of the perfect transmission of carriers normal to the junction as a direct result of the Klein effect. The observation of quantum conductance oscillations in mesoscopic systems has traditionally required the confinement of the carriers to a phase space of reduced dimensionality1,2,3,4. Although electron optics such as lensing5 and focusing6 have been demonstrated experimentally, building a collimated electron interferometer in two unconfined dimensions has remained a challenge owing to the difficulty of creating electrostatic barriers that are sharp on the order of the electron wavelength7. Here, we report the observation of conductance oscillations in extremely narrow graphene heterostructures where a resonant cavity is formed between two electrostatically created bipolar junctions. Analysis of the oscillations confirms that p–n junctions have a collimating effect on ballistically transmitted carriers8. The phase shift observed in the conductance fringes at low magnetic fields is a signature of the perfect transmission of carriers normally incident on the junctions9 and thus constitutes a direct experimental observation of ‘Klein tunnelling’10,11,12.
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- Emergence of superlattice Dirac points in graphene on hexagonal boron nitride (2012, background): “[10] Young, A.”
- Experimental Review of Graphene (2011, background): “Similar effects have also been observed in narrow graphene resonant heterostructures (Young and Kim, 2009).”
- Nobel Lecture: Graphene: Materials in the Flatland (2011, background): “Probably the most striking result of the quasiparticles’ chiral symmetry is the prediction (Katsnelson et al., 2006) and observation (Gorbachev et al., 2008; Young and Kim, 2009) of the Klein paradox in graphene [to explore which the p-n junction is a natural venue (Cheianov and Fal’ko, 2006a)].”
- Colloquium: The transport properties of graphene: An introduction (2010, background): “The helicity (or chirality) of electrons in graphene is responsible for the Klein tunneling effect (Beenakker, 2008; Cheianov and Fal’ko, 2006; Katsnelson et al., 2006), observed recently in graphene heterojunctions (Stander et al., 2009; Young and Kim, 2009).”