2024/03/15 by Lukas Seemann, Seemann, Lukas, Angelika Knothe +3
Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Carbon Nanotubes in Composites #FOS: Physical sciences #Graphene research and applications #Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall) #Optics (physics.optics) #Quantum and electron transport phenomena
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2403.10201
openalex publication_date 2024/03/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Ballistic, gate-defined devices in two-dimensional materials offer a platform for electron optics phenomena influenced by the material's properties and gate control. We study the ray trajectory dynamics of all-electronic, gate-defined cavities in bilayer graphene to establish how distinct regimes of the internal and outgoing charge carrier dynamics can be tuned and optimized by the cavity shape, symmetry, and parameter choice, e.g., the band gap and the cavity orientation. In particular, we compare the dynamics of two cavity shapes, o'nigiri, and Limaçon cavities, which fall into different symmetry classes. We demonstrate that for stabilising regular, internal cavity modes, such as periodic and whispering gallery orbits, it is beneficial to match the cavity shape to the bilayer graphene Fermi line contour. Conversely, a cavity of a different symmetry than the material dispersion allows one to determine preferred emission directionalities in the emitted far-field.