Inter-Well Coupling and Resonant Tunneling Modes of Multiple Graphene Quantum Wells.pdfVIP

Commun．Theor．Phys．56(2011)367-372 Vo1．56，No．2，August15，2011 Inter-WellCouplingandResonantTunnelingModesofMultipleGrapheneQuantum 。厂ells ANLi—Ping(安日萍)，，。WANGTong—Biao(下同标)，。andLIUNian-Hua(刘念华)， lInstituteforAdvancedStudy,NanchangUniversity，Nanchang330031，China 2DepartmentofPhysics，NanchangUniversity,Nanchang330031，China 。DepartmentofPhysics，YanshanUniversity，Qinhuangdao066004，China (ReceivedMarch18，2011；revisedmanuscriptreceivedMay31，2011) A bstract We．investigatetheinter-wellcouplingofmultiplegraphenequantum wellstructuresconsistingofgraphene superlatticeswith differentpedodicpotentials．Thegeneral form oftheeigenlevelequation f0rtheboundstatesofthe quantum wellisexpressedintermsofthetransfermatr／xelements．Itisofundthattheelectronictransmission exhibits resonanttunnenngpeaksattheeigenlevelsoftheboundstatesand jftstothehigherenergywithincreasingtheincident na gle．IfthereareN coupledquna tum wells，theresonantmodeshaveN—foldsplitting． epeaksof resonna ttunneling cna becontrolledbymodulatingthegraphenebarriers． PACSnumbers：62．23．St，73．21．Cd，73．63．Hs K eywords：graphenesuperlattice，quantum well，resonanttunnelingmodes，inter—wellcoupling，transferma- trix 1 Introduction ofthegraphene—basedone-dimensional(1D)superlattices Since the successful fabrication of graphene by withperiodicpotentialsofsquarebarriers．2【刮Itisdemon- Novoselovetal一1【Jgreatinteresthasbeenarousedinthe stratedthatanew Diracpointisexactlylocatedattheen- research on thephysicalpropertiesofgraphene． The eryg withthezerofvolume)averagedwavenumberinside energy bandsofgraphene can be described by a two- the1D periodicpotentials，andthepositionoftheassoci- dimensionalDirac equation centered on hexagonM cor— atedzer-oaveragedwave-numbergapnearthenew Dirac nersfDiracpoints)ofthehoneycomblatticeBrillouin pointisindependen