A valley-filtering switch based on strained graphene

作者:Zhai, Feng*; Ma, Yanling; Zhang, Ying-Tao
来源:Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter , 2011, 23(38): 385302.
DOI:10.1088/0953-8984/23/38/385302

摘要

We investigate valley-dependent transport through a graphene sheet modulated by both the substrate strain and the fringe field of two parallel ferromagnetic metal (FM) stripes. When the magnetizations of the two FM stripes are switched from the parallel to the antiparallel alignment, the total conductance, valley polarization and valley conductance excess change greatly over a wide range of Fermi energy, which results from the dependence of the valley-related transmission suppression on the polarity configuration of inhomogeneous magnetic fields. Thus the proposed structure exhibits the significant features of a valley-filtering switch and a magnetoresistance device.