Electron transport through curved two-dimensional quantum waveguide

This paper details the study of electron transport through a two-dimensional curved quantum waveguide. The curvature of the quantum waveguide is found to greatly affect the transport properties. It is shown that no evanescent mode exists when the inner radius of the curved part of the waveguide is zero. Also, this paper details how localized modes with energy below the Fermi energy can be formed in the curved part due to curvilinear effects. A series of Fano-resonance type dips of the transmission coefficient appear because of the presence of localized modes. Due to the quantum effect, the transmission coefficient and the traversal time increase nonlinearly with the curved angle θ0θ0. This nonlinear property is destroyed as the radius increases.