Quenching effect of oscillating potential on anisotropic resonant transmission through a phosphorene electrostatic barrier

TL;DR

This study investigates how an oscillating potential affects anisotropic resonant tunneling in phosphorene, revealing suppression of transmission and distinct resonance features that could enable nano switching and detection applications.

Contribution

It applies non-perturbative Floquet theory to analyze oscillating potential effects on anisotropic resonant tunneling in phosphorene, highlighting new resonance behaviors and potential device uses.

Findings

Oscillating potential suppresses resonant transmission.

Fano resonances observed along armchair direction.

Distinct line shape resonance at higher frequencies.

Abstract

The anisotropy in resonant tunneling transport through an electrostatic barrier in mono layer black phosphorus either in presence or in absence of an oscillating potential is studied. Non-perturbative Floquet theory is applied to solve the time dependent problem and the results obtained are discussed thoroughly. The resonance spectra in field free transmission are Lorentzian in nature although the width of the resonance for the barrier along the zigzag direction is too thinner than that for the armchair one. Resonant transmission is suppressed for both the cases by the application of oscillating potential that produces small oscillations in the transmission around the resonant energy particularly at low frequency range. Sharp asymmetric Fano resonances are noted in the transmission spectrum along the armchair direction while a distinct line shape resonance is noted for the zigzag direction at higher frequency of the oscillating potential. Even after the angular average, the conductance along the armchair direction retains the characteristic Fano features that could be observed experimentally. The present results are supposed to suggest that the phosphorene electrostatic barrier could be used successfully as switching devices and nano detectors.