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In this paper, we present the results of helium temperature transport measurements through carbon nanotubes using an AFM conductive tip as a mobile gate. In semiconducting nanotubes we observe shifting of the conductance peaks with changing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexey Zhukov

We overview nonequilibrium Green function combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) modeling of independent electron and phonon transport in nanojunctions with applications focused on a new class of thermoelectric devices where a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Branislav K. Nikolic , Kamal K. Saha , Troels Markussen , Kristian S. Thygesen

Electronic transport in a triple quantum dot shuttle device in the presence of an ac field is analyzed within a fully quantum mechanical framework. A generalized density matrix formalism is used to describe the time evolution for electronic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-05-20 J. Villavicencio , I. Maldonado , R. Sánchez , E. Cota , G. Platero

In weakly interacting organic semiconductors, static and dynamic disorder often have an important impact on transport properties. Describing charge transport in these systems requires an approach that correctly takes structural and…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-15 Susanne Leitherer , Christof M. Jäger , Andreas Krause , Marcus Halik , Tim Clark , Michael Thoss

Electron transport in a self-consistent potential along a ballistic two-terminal conductor has been investigated. We have derived general formulas which describe the nonlinear current-voltage characteristics, differential conductance, and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. M. Bulashenko , J. M. Rubi

We present a procedure to determine transmission eigenchannels for coherent phonon transport in nanoscale devices using the framework of nonequilibrium Green's functions. We illustrate our procedure by analyzing a one-dimensional chain,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-02 J. C. Klöckner , J. C. Cuevas , F. Pauly

We investigate transport properties of molecular junctions under two types of bias--a short time pulse or an AC bias--by combining a solution for the Green functions in the time domain with electronic structure information coming from ab…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-06-18 San-Huang Ke , Rui Liu , Weitao Yang , Harold U. Baranger

We present results for time-dependent electron transport in a ballistic graphene field-effect transistor with an ac-driven gate. Nonlinear response to the ac drive is derived utilizing Floquet theory for scattering states in combination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Yevgeniy Korniyenko , Oleksii Shevtsov , Tomas Lofwander

The spin-dependent transport of the electrons tunneling through a resonant tunneling structure with ferromagnetic multi-terminal under dc and ac fields is explored by means of the nonequilibrium Green function technique. A general…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Zhen-Gang Zhu , Gang Su , Qing-Rong Zheng , Biao Jin

The electrical and optical response of a field-effect device comprising a network of semiconductor-enriched single-wall carbon nanotubes, gated with sodium chloride solution is investigated. Field-effect is demonstrated in a device that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-24 Manu Jaiswal , C. S. Suchand Sangeeth , Wei Wang , Ya-Ping Sun , Reghu Menon

We propose a nonequilibrium Green's function approach to calculate the ac conductance of various finite-length carbon nanotubes. The simulated ac conductance differs significantly from that of the infinite-length ones. At the low-frequency…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Yuhui He , Danqiong Hou , Xiaoyan Liu , Ruqi Han

We numerically investigate the electronic transport properties between two mesoscopic graphene disks with a twist by employing the density functional theory coupled with non-equilibrium Green's function technique. By attaching two graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Yulei Han , Yafei Ren , Xinlong Dong , Junjie Zeng , Wei Ren , Zhenhua Qiao

Using the non-equilibrium Keldysh Green's function formalism, we show that the non-equilibrium charge transport in nanoscopic quantum networks takes place via {\it current eigenmodes} that possess characteristic spatial patterns. We…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-16 Tankut Can , Hui Dai , Dirk K. Morr

We investigate the nonstationary electronic transport in noninteracting nanostructures driven by a finite bias and time-dependent signals applied at their contacts to the leads. The systems are modelled by a tight-binding Hamiltonian and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Valeriu Moldoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson , Andrei Manolescu

Nanoelectronics requires the development of a priori technology evaluation for materials and device design that takes into account quantum physical effects and the explicit chemical nature at the atomic scale. Here, we present a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-04 Dimpy Sharma , Lida Ansari , Baruch Feldman , Marios Iakovidis , James Greer , Giorgos Fagas

We report on dynamical quantum transport simulations for realistic molecular devices based on an approximate formulation of time-dependent Density Functional Theory with open boundary conditions. The method allows for the computation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-16 Christian Oppenländer , Björn Korff , Thomas A. Niehaus

We study dynamic nonequilibrium electron charging phenomena in ballistic molecular devices at room temperature that compromise their response to bias and whose nature is evidently distinguishable from static Schottky-type potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-05-13 Ioannis Deretzis , Antonino La Magna

By using nonequilibrium Green's functions and the equation of motion method, we formulate a self-consistent field theory for the electron transport through a single molecular junction (SMJ) coupled with a vibrational mode. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-28 Guo-Hui Ding , Bing Dong

We present quantum simulations of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (CNT-FETs) based on top-gated architectures and compare to electrical characterization on devices with 15 nm channel lengths. A non-equilibrium Green's function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Alfonso Sanchez-Soares , Thomas Kelly , Giorgos Fagas , James C. Greer , Edward Chen

We discuss the general transport properties of superconducting quantum point contacts. We show how these properties can be obtained from a microscopic model using nonequilibrium Green function techniques. For the case of a one-channel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Martin-Rodero , A. Levy Yeyati , J. C. Cuevas