Coherent Graphene Devices: Movable Mirrors, Buffers and Memories

Abstract

We theoretically report that, at a sharp electrostatic step potential in graphene, massless Dirac fermions can obtain Goos-Hänchen-like shifts under total internal reflection. Based on these results, we study the coherent propagation of the quasiparticles along a sharp graphene \emph{p-n-p} waveguide and derive novel dispersion relations for the guided modes. Consequently, coherent graphene devices (e.g. movable mirrors, buffers and memories) induced only by the electric field effect can be proposed.

12 pages, 5 figures