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Graphene traps

Although Dirac fermions in graphene can tunnel through potential barriers without reflection, two experiments show how they can temporarily be trapped inside nanoscale graphene quantum dots.

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Figure 1: Electrostatic graphene quantum dot.

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Yang, H. Graphene traps. Nature Phys 12, 994–995 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3817

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