Direction-dependent tunneling through nanostructured magnetic barriers in graphene

Resonant tunneling through traps in Schottky barriers

2014 The authors present a theoretical treatment of the resonant tunneling phenomenon in Schottky barriers including deep traps whose potentials are represented by Dirac 03B4 functions. It is shown that in this case the quantum treatment of the tunneling effect leads to exactly the same result as that obtained when applying a more phenomenological formulation of the problem similar to the one u...

Chiral tunneling through generic one-dimensional potential barriers in bilayer graphene

Spin-related tunneling through a nanostructured electric-magnetic barrier on the surface of a topological insulator

We investigate quantum tunneling through a single electric and/or magnetic barrier on the surface of a three-dimensional topological insulator. We found that (1) the propagating behavior of electrons in such system exhibits a strong dependence on the direction of the incident electron wavevector and incident energy, giving the possibility to construct a wave vector and/or energy filter; (2) the...

Spin-dependent tunneling in magnetic tunnel junctions

The phenomenon of electron tunneling has been known since the advent of quantum mechanics, but continues to enrich our understanding of many fields of physics, as well as creating sub-fields on its own. Spin-dependent tunneling in magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) has recently aroused enormous interest and has developed in a vigorous field of research. The large tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR)...

Nonlinear feedback oscillations in resonant tunneling through double barriers.

We analyze the dynamical evolution of the resonant tunneling of an ensemble of electrons through a double barrier in the presence of the self-consistent potential created by the charge accumulation in the well. The intrinsic nonlinearity of the transmission process is shown to lead to oscillations of the stored charge and of the transmitted and reflected fluxes. The dependence on the electrosta...