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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 9, Issue 4, Pages 225-229Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS2549
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-0845287, DMR-0819762, ECS-0335765]
- Office of Naval Research GATE MURI
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0845287] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23246116] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Electrons in a periodic lattice can propagate without scattering for macroscopic distances despite the presence of the non-uniform Coulomb potential due to the nuclei(1). Such ballistic motion of electrons allows the use of a transverse magnetic field to focus electrons(2). This phenomenon, known as transverse magnetic focusing (TMF), has been used to study the Fermi surface of metals(3) and semiconductor heterostructures(4), as well as to investigate Andreev reflection(3) and spin-orbit interaction(5), and to detect composite fermions(6,7). Here we report on the experimental observation of TMF in high-mobility mono-, bi-and tri-layer graphene devices. The ability to tune the graphene carrier density enables us to investigate TMF continuously from the hole to the electron regime and analyse the resulting focusing fan. Moreover, by applying a transverse electric field to tri-layer graphene, we use TMF as a ballistic electron spectroscopy method to investigate controlled changes in the electronic structure of a material. Finally, we demonstrate that TMF survives in graphene up to 300 K, by far the highest temperature reported for any system, opening the door to new room-temperature applications based on electron-optics.
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