Resonant tunnelling between the chiral Landau states of twisted graphene lattices

Nature Physics

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1057-1062

  Greenaway, M T ^a   Vdovin, E E ^a,b,c   Mishchenko, A ^d   Makarovsky, O ^a   Patane A ^a   Wallbank, J R ^e   Cao, Y ^d   Kretinin, A V ^d   Zhu, M J ^d   Morozov, S V ^b,c   Fal'Ko, V I ^e   Novoselov, K S ^d   Geim, A K ^d   Fromhold, T M ^a   Eaves, L ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY AND HIGH PURITY MATERIALS   (Russian Federation)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; GRAPHENE TRANSISTORS; GRAPHITE ELECTRODES; III-V SEMICONDUCTORS; RESONANT TUNNELING; VAN DER WAALS FORCES;

APPLIED MAGNETIC FIELDS; CHIRAL PROPERTIES; CYCLOTRON TRAJECTORY; DIRAC FERMIONS; GRAPHENE ELECTRODES; GRAPHENE LATTICES; MULTI-LAYERED; VALENCE BAND STATE;

GRAPHENE;

EID: 84949320833     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys3507     Document Type: Article

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