| Issue |
EPL
Volume 87, Number 4, August 2009
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 47005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/87/47005 | |
| Published online | 04 September 2009 | |
Spin-orbit effects in a graphene bipolar pn junction
1
Department of Physics, Tohoku University - Sendai, 980-8578, Japan
2
Condensed Matter Theory Group, CPMOH, UMR 5798, Université Bordeaux I - 33405 Talence, France, EU
Corresponding author: j.cayssol@cpmoh.u-bordeaux1.fr
Received:
3
June
2009
Accepted:
7
August
2009
A graphene pn junction is studied theoretically in the presence of both intrinsic and Rashba spin-orbit couplings. We show that a crossover from perfect reflection to perfect transmission is achieved at normal incidence by tuning the perpendicular electric field. By further studying angular-dependent transmission, we demonstrate that perfect reflection at normal incidence can be clearly distinguished from trivial band gap effects. We also investigate how spin-orbit effects modify the conductance and the Fano factor associated with a potential step in both nn and np cases.
PACS: 73.23.-b – Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems / 73.63.-b – Electronic transport in nanoscale materials and structures / 73.40.-c – Electronic transport in interface structures
© EPLA, 2009
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.