Electrically-manipulable electron-momentum filter based on antiparallel asymmetric double δ-magnetic-barrier semiconductor microstructure

We theoretically investigate the wave-vector filtering(WVF) effect for electrons in an antiparallel asymmetric doubleδ-magnetic-barrier microstructure under a bias, which can be fabricated experimentally by patterning two asymmetric ferromagnetic(FM) stripes on the top and the bottom of GaAs/Al_xGa_(1-x) As heterostructure, respectively. It is found that an appreciable WVF effect appears because of an essentially two-dimensional(2D) process for electrons across this microstructure. WVF effect is found to be sensitive to the applied bias. WVF efficiency can be tuned by changing bias,which may lead to an electrically-controllable momentum filter for nanoelectronics device applications.