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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
We study tunneling across a strain-induced superlattice in graphene. In studying the effect of applied strain on the low-lying Dirac-like spectrum, both a shift of the Dirac points in reciprocal space, and a deformation of the Dirac cones is explicitly considered. The latter corresponds to an anisotropic, possibly nonuniform, Fermi velocity. Along with the modes with unit transmission usually found across a single barrier, we analytically find additional resonant modes when considering a periodic structure of several strain-induced barriers. We also study the bandlike spectrum of bound states, as a function of conserved energy and transverse momentum. Such a strain-induced superlattice may thus effectively work as a mode filter for transport in graphene.
Publisher: 
American Physical Society
Publication date: 
7 May 2012
Authors: 

FMD Pellegrino, GGN Angilella, R Pucci

Biblio References: 
Volume: 85 Issue: 19 Pages: 195409
Origin: 
Physical Review B