Chiral Tunneling and the Klein Paradox in Graphene

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This plot shows the transmission coefficient for a barrier of height in graphene as a function of the angle of a plane wave incident on the barrier.
Contributed by: Niels Walet (March 2011)
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This is a minor generalization of the plot shown in Fig. 2a of [1]. It shows the transmission coefficient for a plane wave incident on a barrier of height . The parameters for graphene given in that paper have been used: Dirac speed
, energy
, Fermi momentum
; the width of barrier
ranges from
and
lies between
.
M. I. Katsnelson, K. S. Novoselov, and A. K. Geim, "Chiral Tunneling and the Klein Paradox in Graphene," Nature Phys., 2, 2006 pp. 620–625.
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