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We have studied the transport properties of a molecular device composed of donor and acceptor moieties between two electrodes on either side. The device is considered to be one-dimensional with different on-site energies and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Lakshmi , Swapan K. Pati

We present a model to describe the nonlinear response to a direct dc current applied to a two-dimensional electron system in a strong magnetic field. The model is based on the solution of the von Neumann equation incorporating the exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-21 A. Kunold , M. Torres

Negative differential conductivity (NDC) is a widely exploited effect in modern electronic components. Here, a proof-of-principle is given for the observation of NDC in a quantum transport device for neutral atoms employing a multi-mode…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-24 Ralf Labouvie , Bodhaditya Santra , Simon Heun , Sandro Wimberger , Herwig Ott

Current-controlled (also known as "S-type") negative differential resistance (NDR) is of crucial importance to many emerging applications including neuromorphic computing and high-density memristors integration. However, the experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Miao Wang , Chengyu Wang , Chenchen Wu , Qiao Li , Chen Pan , Cong Wang , Shi-Jun Liang , Feng Miao

In this work, we clarify the physical mechanism for the phenomenon of negative output differential resistance (NDR) in short-channel graphene FETs (GFETs) through non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) simulations and a simpler…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 Roberto Grassi , Tony Low , Antonio Gnudi , Giorgio Baccarani

Active memristor elements, also called neuristors, are self-oscillating devices that are very good approximations to biological neuronal functionality and are crucial to the development of low-power neuromorphic hardware. Materials that…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-03-17 Upanya Khandelwal , Qikai Guo , Beatriz Noheda , Pavan Nukala , Saurabh Chandorkar

Negative differential resistance (NDR) is tuned at junctions of electronically different dimer and trimer of Rose Bengal on an atomic flat gold (111) surface. Isolated molecule did not show any NDR. But it was induced to show double NDR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Anirban Bandyopadhyay , Y. Wakayama

Gunn (or Gunn-Hilsum) Effect and its associated negative differential resistivity (NDR) emanates from transfer of electrons between two different energy bands in a semiconductor. If applying a voltage (electric field) transfers electrons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Daryoush Shiri , Amit Verma , Reza Nekovei , Andreas Isacsson , C. R. Selvakumar , M. P. Anantram

Metal-based electronics is attractive for fast and radiation-hard electronic circuits and remains one of the longstanding goals for researchers. The emergence of 1T-TaS$_2$, a layered material exhibiting strong charge density wave (CDW)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Mehak Mahajan , Kausik Majumdar

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have emerged as leading candidates for the development of low-power and multifunctional computing applications, thanks to their qualities such as layer-dependent band gap tunability, high carrier…

Negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) can be generated for any one-dimensional heat flow with a temperature-dependent thermal conductivity. In a system-independent scaling analysis, the general condition for the occurrence of NDTR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ho-Kei Chan , Dahai He , Bambi Hu

The negative differential resistance (NDR) response of Nb/NbOx/Pt cross-point devices is shown to have a polarity dependence due to the effect of the metal/oxide Schottky barriers on the contact resistance. Three distinct responses are…

Negative differential thermal resistance (NDTR) in approximate graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) is investigated from one dimension to three dimensions by using classical molecular dynamics method. For single-layer GNRs, NDTR can not be observed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-29 Bao-quan Ai , Wei-rong Zhong , Bambi Hu

The conductive characteristics of Bi0.9La0.1Fe0.96Mg0.04O3(BLFM) thin film are investigated at various temperatures and a negative differential resistance (NDR) is observed in the thin film, where a leakage current peak occurs upon…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 Qingqing Ke , Amit Kumar , Xiaojie Lou , Kaiyang Zeng , John Wang

We investigate thermal transport in a two segment classical Heisenberg spin chain with nearest neighbor interaction and in presence of external magnetic field using computer simulation. The system is thermally driven by heat baths attached…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-11-11 Debarshee Bagchi

We report two examples of transport phenomena based on sharp features in the effective density of states of molecular-scale transistors: Kondo physics in C$_{60}$-based devices, and gate-modulated negative differential resistance (NDR) in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. H. Yu , D. Natelson

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and transitional metal dichalcogenides, have attracted tremendous amount of attention over the past decade due to their extraordinary thermal, electrical and optical…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-02-16 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram

Down-scaling device dimensions to the nanometer range raises significant challenges to traditional device design, due to potential current leakage across nanoscale dimensions and the need to maintain reproducibility while dealing with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-03 Zhongcan Xiao , Chuanxu Ma , Jingsong Huang , Liangbo Liang , Wenchang Lu , Kunlun Hong , Bobby G. Sumpter , An-Ping Li , J. Bernholc

Multipeak negative differential resistance (NDR) molecular devices are designed from first principles. The effect of NDR is associated with the non-linear Stark shifts and the electron localization within the conductive region and contacts.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-07 Mikolaj Sadek , Malgorzata Wierzbowska , Michal F. Rode , Andrzej L. Sobolewski

We show that Joule heating causes current-controlled negative differential resistance (CC-NDR) in TiO2 by constructing an analytical model of the voltage-current V(I) characteristic based on polaronic transport for Ohm's Law and Newton's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. S. Alexandrov , A. M. Bratkovsky , B. Bridle , S. E. Savel'ev , D. B. Strukov , R. Stanley Williams