Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhao, Yue
• Wyrick, Jonathan
• Natterer, Fabian D.
• Rodriguez-Nieva, Joaquin F.
• Lewandowski, Cyprian
• Watanabe, Kenji
• Taniguchi, Takashi
• Levitov, Leonid S.
• Zhitenev, Nikolai B.
• Stroscio, Joseph A.

Titel

Creating and probing electron whispering-gallery modes in graphene

Ist Teil von

• Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science), 2015-05, Vol.348 (6235), p.672-675

Ort / Verlag

Washington: American Association for the Advancement of Science

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Science Online_科学在线

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The design of high-finesse resonant cavities for electronic waves faces challenges due to short electron coherence lengths in solids. Complementing previous approaches to confine electronic waves by carefully positioned adatoms at clean metallic surfaces, we demonstrate an approach inspired by the peculiar acoustic phenomena in whispering galleries. Taking advantage of graphene's gate-tunable light-like carriers, we create whispering-gallery mode (WGM) resonators defined by circular pn junctions, induced by a scanning tunneling probe. We can tune the resonator size and the carrier concentration under the probe in a back-gated graphene device over a wide range. The WGM-type confinement and associated resonances are a new addition to the quantum electron-optics toolbox, paving the way to develop electronic lenses and resonators.