Electric- and exchange-field controlled transport through silicene barriers: Conductance gap and near-perfect spin polarization
- Department of Physics, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, Québec H4B 1R6 (Canada)
We study ballistic electron transport through silicene barriers, of width d and height U, in the presence of an exchange field M and a normal electric field E{sub z}. Away from the Dirac point (DP), the spin- and valley-resolved conductances, as functions of U, exhibit resonances while close to it there is a pronounced dip that can be transformed into a transport gap by varying E{sub z}. The charge conductance g{sub c} changes from oscillatory to a monotonically decreasing function of d beyond a critical E{sub z} and this can be used to realize electric-field-controlled switching. Further, the field M splits each resonance of g{sub c} into two spin-resolved peaks. The spin polarization near the DP increases with E{sub z} or M and becomes nearly perfect above certain of their values. Similar results hold for double barriers.
- OSTI ID:
- 22402424
- Journal Information:
- Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 105, Issue 22; Other Information: (c) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0003-6951
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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