Tunneling conductance in a gapped graphene-based superconducting structure: Case of massive Dirac electrons |
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Authors: | Bumned Soodchomshom I-Ming Tang Rassmidara Hoonsawat |
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Affiliation: | aThEP Center, Commission of Higher Education. 328 Si Ayuthaya Rd., Bangkok 10400, Thailand;bDepartment of Science and Mathematics (Physics), Faculty of Science and Technology, Pathumwan Institute of Technology, Bangkok 10330, Thailand;cDepartment of Physics, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Bangkok 10400, Thailand;dMahidol University International College, Salaya Campus Nakorn Pathom, 73170, Thailand |
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Abstract: | The tunneling conductance in a NG/SG graphene junction in which the graphene was grown on a SiC substrate is simulated. The carriers in the normal graphene (NG) and the superconducting graphene (SG) are treated as massive relativistic particles. It is assumed that the Fermi energy in the NG and SG are EFN400 meV and EFS400 meV+U, respectively. Here U is the electrostatic potential from the superconducting gate electrode. It is seen that the Klein tunneling disappears in the case where a gap exist in the energy spectrum. As U→∞, the zero bias normalized conductance becomes persistent at a minimal value of G/G01.2. The normalized conductance G/G0 is found to depend linearly on U with constant slope of , where is the size of the gap Δ opening up in the energy spectrum of the graphene grown on the SiC substrate. It is found that G/G02+αU for potentials in the range −270 meV<U<0 meV and G=0 for potentials U<−270 meV. As α→∞, the conductance for eV=Δ (V is the bias voltage placed across the NG/SG junction) can be approximated by a unit step function G(eV=Δ,U)/G02Θ(U). This last behavior indicates that a NG/SG junction made with gapped graphene could be used as a nano switch having excellent characteristics. |
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Keywords: | Gapped graphene Tunneling conductance Normal metal/superconductor junction Switching electronic device |
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