Snake trajectories in ultraclean graphene p-n junctions

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Rickhaus, Peter ^a   Makk, Péter ^a   Liu, Ming Hao ^b   Tóvári, Endre ^c   Weiss, Markus ^a   Maurand, Romain ^d   Richter, Klaus ^b   Schönenberger, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAPHENE;

CARBON; MAGNETIC FIELD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIMULATION; TRAJECTORY;

ARTICLE; COLLIMATOR; CONDUCTANCE; CYCLOTRON; MAGNETIC FIELD; OSCILLATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SIMULATION; VISIBILITY;

EID: 84924176579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms7470     Document Type: Article

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