Science Daily July 14, 2020
Electron optics has been demonstrated mainly in one-dimensional devices, for example in nanotubes. Researchers in Switzerland have shown that the band inversion and hybridization present in two coupled semiconductor layers, consisting of InAs and GaSb system provide a novel transport mechanism that guarantees non-vanishing interference even when all angles of incidence occur. Through a combination of transport measurements and theoretical modelling, they found that their devices operate as a Fabry-Pérot interferometer in which electrons and holes form hybrid states. As the mechanism requires only band inversion and hybridization, the research opens engineering electron-optical phenomena in a broad variety of materials…read more. Open Access TECHNICAL ARTICLE