Tunable wavevector filtering in borophane based normal metal-barrier-normal metal junctions

TL;DR

This paper investigates the transport properties of Dirac electrons in borophane NBN junctions, demonstrating tunable transmission gaps and conductance features, leading to a proposed wavevector filter for nano-electronic applications.

Contribution

It introduces a tunable wavevector filtering mechanism in borophane based NBN junctions, controlling transmission gaps and conductance via barrier parameters and incident energy.

Findings

Transmission gap can be tuned by barrier strength and transverse momentum.

Conductance oscillates or decays depending on propagating and evanescent modes.

Conductance drops to minimum when incident energy equals barrier height.

Abstract

We study the transport properties of Dirac electrons across a two-dimensional normal metal-barrier-normal metal (NBN) interfaces in monolayer borophane. We analyse the transmission probability with variation of the width of the barrier region, the incidence energy and transverse momentum. We demonstrate that a gap exists in the transmission probability spectrum and the position, width of transmission gap can be tuned by the barrier strength and transverse momentum respectively. We point out the variation of the ballistic tunneling conductance as a function of the width of the barrier region and incident energy. We find that the oscillatory or decaying nature of the conductance with variation in barrier width depends upon the number of propagating and evanescent modes which are controlled by the incident energy and barrier strength. We show that the conductance as a function of incident energy drops to a minimum value when the incident energy becomes identical to the barrier height and identify that this effect is caused by the presence of evanescent modes inside the barrier. Based on these findings we propose a perfectly tunable wavevector filter for Borophane. We expect our findings posses useful applications in borophane based nano-electronic devices.