title: Fully valley-polarized electron beams in graphene.
abstract: We propose a device to break the valley degeneracy in graphene and produce fully valley-polarized currents that can be either split or collimated to a high degree in a experimentally controllable way. The proposal combines two recent seminal ideas: negative refraction and the concept of valleytronics in graphene. The key new ingredient lies in the use of the specular shape of the Fermi surface of the two valleys when a high electronic density is induced by a gate voltage (trigonal warping). By changing the gate voltage in a n-p-n junction of a graphene transistor, the device can be used as a valley beam splitter, where each of the beams belong to a different valley, or as a collimator. The result is demonstrated through an optical analogy with two-dimensional photonic crystals.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Cantoblanco, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Garcia-Pomar
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cortijo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nieto-Vesperinas