Tunable wavevector filtering in borophane based normal metal-barrier-normal metal junctions
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Prasun Das1, Sangita De Sarkar2, Asim Kumar Ghosh1
1Department of Physics, Jadavpur University, 188 Raja Subodh Chandra Mallick Road, Kolkata 700032, India.
Abstract:
We study the transport properties of Dirac electrons across a two-dimensional normal metal-barrier-normal metal interface in monolayer borophane. We analyse the transmission probability with variation of the width of the barrier region, the incidence energy and transverse momentum. We demonstrate that a gap exists in the transmission probability spectrum and the position of the width of the transmission gap can be tuned by the barrier strength and transverse momentum respectively. We point out the variation of the ballistic tunneling conductance as a function of the width of the barrier region and incident energy. We find that the oscillatory or decaying nature of the conductance with variation in barrier width depends upon the number of propagating and evanescent modes which are controlled by the incident energy and barrier strength. We show that the conductance as a function of incident energy drops to a minimum value when the incident energy becomes identical to the barrier height and identify that this effect is caused by the presence of evanescent modes inside the barrier. Based on these findings we propose a perfectly tunable wavevector filter for borophane. We expect our findings possess useful applications in borophane based nano-electronic devices.
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