Coherent Graphene Devices: Movable Mirror, Buffer and Memory

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Abstract

We theoretically report that, at a sharp electrostatic step potential in graphene, massless Dirac fermions can obtain a Goos-H\"{a}nchen-like shift under total internal reflection. Based on these results, we study the coherent propagation of the quasiparticles along a sharp graphene \emph{p-n-p} waveguide and derive novel dispersion relations for the guided modes. Consequently, coherent graphene devices (e.g. movable mirror, buffer and memory) induced only by the electric field effect can be proposed.

*We would like to acknowledge funding from NSF.

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Authors

  • L. Zhao

    • Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269

  • S. F. Yelin

    • Department of Physics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269; ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138