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Correlation effects on electron transport through a system of T-shaped double-dots are investigated, for which only one of the dots is directly connected to the leads. We evaluate the local density of states and the conductance by means of…

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We present a plane wave/pseudopotential implementation of the method to calculate electron transport properties of nanostructures. The conductance is calculated via the Landauer formula within formalism of Green's functions. Nonorthogonal…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhenyu Li , D. S. Kosov

We present an ab initio study of spin dependent transport in armchair carbon nanotubes with transition metal adsorbates, iron or vanadium. We neglect the effect of tube curvature and model the nanotube by graphene with periodic boundary…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-13 Joachim A. Fürst , Mads Brandbyge , Antti-Pekka Jauho , Kurt Stokbro

We present a novel ab initio non-equilibrium approach to calculate the current across a molecular junction. The method rests on a wave function based full ab initio description of the central region of the junction combined with a tight…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Schnurpfeil , Bo Song , Martin Albrecht

Building up a solid-state material from quantum dots (QD), which are often referred to as artificial atoms, offers the potential to create new materials with unprecedented macroscopic properties. The investigation of the electronic…

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We report on nonlinear transport measurements in a two-dimensional electron gas hosted in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures. Upon application of direct current, the low-temperature differential resistivity acquires a positive correction, which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-01 O. E. Raichev , A. T. Hatke , M. A. Zudov , J. L. Reno

We have investigated the effects of the interfacial bond arrangement on the electronic transport features of metal-nanotube-metal systems. The transport properties of finite, defect-free armchair and zigzag single-walled carbon nanotubes…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioannis Deretzis , Antonino La Magna

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

Within the Coulomb blockade regime, our study delves into the charge, spin, and thermoelectric transport characteristics in a benzene-based molecular nano-junction using the Pauli master equation and linear response theory. The charge- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Parbati Senapati , Prakash Parida

Despite the importance of Si:P delta-doped wires for modern nanoelectronics, there are currently no computational models of electron transport in these devices. In this paper we present a nonequilibrium Green's function model for electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 J. S. Smith , D. W. Drumm , A. Budi , J. A. Vaitkus , J. H. Cole , S. P. Russo

We consider electronic transport through semiconducting nanowires (W) with spin-orbit interaction (SOI), in a hybrid N-W-N setup where the wire is contacted by normal-metal leads (N). We investigate the conductance behavior of the system as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Diego Rainis , Daniel Loss

We analyze the nonlinear transport properties of a bilayer exciton condensate that is contacted by four metallic leads by calculating the full counting statistics of electron transport for arbitrary system parameters. Despite its formal…

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We investigate electron transport through single conjugated molecules - including benzenedithiol, oligo-phenylene-ethynylenes of different lengths, and a ferrocene-containing molecule sandwiched between two gold electrodes with different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-12 San-Huang Ke , Harold U. Baranger , Weitao Yang

The electron transport properties of hybrid ferromagnetic|normal metal structures such as multilayers and spin valves depend on the relative orientation of the magnetization direction of the ferromagnetic elements. Whereas the contrast in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Arne Brataas , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Paul J. Kelly

Correlation effects within the GW approximation have been incorporated into the Keldysh non-equilibrium transport formalism. We show that GW describes the Kondo effect and the zero-temperature transport properties of the Anderson model…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-25 Kristian S. Thygesen , Angel Rubio

Quasi-static transport measurements are employed to characterize a few electron quantum dot electrostatically defined in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructure. The gate geometry allows observations on one and the same electron droplet within a wide…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-19 A. K. Huettel , K. Eberl , S. Ludwig

The transmission properties of armchair graphene nanoribbon junctions between graphene electrodes are investigated by means of first-principles quantum transport calculations. First the dependence of the transmission function on the size of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 C. Motta , D. Sánchez-Portal , M. I. Trioni

Negative diagonal magneto-conductivity/resistivity is a spectacular- and thought provoking- property of driven, far-from-equilibrium, low dimensional electronic systems. The physical response of this exotic electronic state is not yet fully…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-19 R. G. Mani , A. Kriisa

Hybrid functional calculations reveal the Zn-O divacancy in ZnO, consisting of adjacent Zn and O vacancies, as an electrically active defect exhibiting charge states ranging from $2+$ to $2-$ within the band gap. Notably, the divacancy…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-16 Y. K. Frodason , K. M. Johansen , A. Alkauskas , L. Vines

Electronic transport properties through some model quantum systems are re-visited. A simple tight-binding framework is given to describe the systems where all numerical calculations are made using the Green's function formalism. First, we…

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