Valley beam splitter based on strained graphene

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zhai, Feng ^a   Ma, Yanling ^b   Chang, Kai ^c  

^a ZHEJIANG NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF SEMICONDUCTORS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIALS; LATERAL DISPLACEMENTS; TRANSMISSION RESONANCE; TRANSMITTED BEAMS;

BIREFRINGENCE; ELECTRON BEAMS; LANDFORMS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PRISMS; REFRACTION;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 80052485608     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/8/083029     Document Type: Article

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