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Giant Goos-Hänchen shift in graphene double-barrier structures

  • Yu Song*
  • , Han Chun Wu
  • , Yong Guo
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We report giant Goos-Hänchen shifts [Goos and Hänchen, Ann. Phys. 436, 333 (1947)] for electron beams tunneling through graphene double barrier structures. We find that inside the transmission gap for the single barrier, the shift displays sharp peaks with magnitudes up to the order of electron beam width and rather small full-widths-at-half-maximum, which may be utilized to design valley and spin beam splitters with wide tunability and high energy resolution. We attribute the giant shifts to quasibound states in the structures. Moreover, an induced energy gap in the dispersion can increase the tunability and resolution of the splitters.

Original languageEnglish
Article number253116
JournalApplied Physics Letters
Volume100
Issue number25
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Jun 2012
Externally publishedYes

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