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TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of disorder on a graphene p-n junction
AU - Fogler, M. M.
AU - Novikov, Dmitri S
AU - Glazman, Leonid
AU - Shklovskii, Boris
N1 - © 2008 The American Physical Society
PY - 2008/2/1
Y1 - 2008/2/1
N2 - We propose the theory of transport in a gate-tunable graphene p-n junction, in which the gradient of the carrier density is controlled by the gate voltage. Depending on this gradient and on the density of charged impurities, the junction resistance is dominated by either diffusive or ballistic contribution. We find the conditions for observing ballistic transport and show that in existing devices they are satisfied only marginally. We also simulate numerically the trajectories of charge carriers and illustrate challenges in realizing more delicate ballistic effects, such as Veselago lensing.
AB - We propose the theory of transport in a gate-tunable graphene p-n junction, in which the gradient of the carrier density is controlled by the gate voltage. Depending on this gradient and on the density of charged impurities, the junction resistance is dominated by either diffusive or ballistic contribution. We find the conditions for observing ballistic transport and show that in existing devices they are satisfied only marginally. We also simulate numerically the trajectories of charge carriers and illustrate challenges in realizing more delicate ballistic effects, such as Veselago lensing.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.075420
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevB.77.075420
M3 - Journal article
VL - 77
JO - Physical review B
JF - Physical review B
SN - 1098-0121
IS - 7
M1 - 075420
ER -