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We investigate the atomic-scale tunneling characteristics of bilayer graphene on silicon carbide using the scanning tunneling microscopy. The high-resolution tunneling spectroscopy reveals an unexpected negative differential resistance…

Negative differential resistance (NDR) with room temperature peak-valley-ratio of 8 has been observed in a ballistic field-effect-transistor (FET) based on graphene, having an oblique top gate. Graphene FETs with a top gate inclination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mircea Dragoman , Adrian Dinescu , Daniela Dragoman

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is drawing increasing attention as an insulator and substrate material to develop next generation graphene-based electronic devices. In this paper, we investigate the quantum transport in heterostructures…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Y. Zhao , Z. Wan , X. Xu , S. R. Patil , U. Hetmaniuk , M. P. Anantram

Nonlinear electrical properties, such as negative differential resistance (NDR), are essential in numerous electrical circuits, including memristors. Several physical origins have been proposed to lead to the NDR phenomena in semiconductor…

We theoretically investigate negative differential resistance (NDR) of massless and massive Dirac Fermions in double barrier resonant tunneling diodes based on sufficiently short and wide graphene strips. The current-voltage characteristics…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-03-12 Yu Song , Han-Chun Wu , Yong Guo

The graphene is a native two-dimensional crystal material consisting of a single sheet of carbon atoms. In this unique one-atom-thick material, the electron transport is ballistic and is described by a quantum relativistic-like Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Dragoman , Mircea Dragoman

Using self-consistent calculations based on Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) formalism, the origin of negative differential resistance (NDR) in molecular junctions and quantum wires is investigated. Coupling of the molecule to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-21 Hosein Cheraghchi , Keivan Esfarjani

In this paper, we report on the controllable negative differential resistance (NDR) in a proposed planar graphene superlattice structure. High value of peak to valley ratio (PVR) is predicted. This is significant because of appearance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-02 S. M. Sattari-Esfahlan , J. Fouladi-Oskuei , S. Shojaei

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

Surface graphene guides were interfaced with an array of individual semiconductor quantum dots, whose position was commensurate with the optical guide modes. The surface guide served as a channel for a Field Effect Transistor (FET) while…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Xin Miao , Haim Grebel

We theoretically investigate negative differential resistance (NDR) for ballistic transport in semiconducting armchair graphene nanoribbon (aGNR) superlattices (5 to 20 barriers) at low bias voltages V_SD < 500 mV. We combine the graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-11-11 Gerson J. Ferreira , Michael N. Leuenberger , Daniel Loss , J. Carlos Egues

Negative differential resistivity (NDR) in a (3+1)-dimensional quantum system of strongly correlated charge carriers is theoretically reproduced by using the AdS/CFT correspondence. Our system is microscopically defined, and the analysis…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-19 Shin Nakamura

Graphene nanoribbons with armchair edges (AGNRs) have bandgaps that can be flexibly tuned via the ribbon width. A junction made of a narrower AGNR sandwiched between two wider AGNR leads was recently reported to possess two perfect…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Suchun Li , Chee Kwan Gan , Young-Woo Son , Yuan Ping Feng , Su Ying Quek

A new mechanism is proposed to explain the origin of negative differential resistance (NDR) in a strongly coupled single molecule-metal junction. A first-principles quantum transport calculation in a Fe-terpyridine linker molecule…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ranjit Pati , Mike McClain , Anirban Bandyopadhyay

We propose a graphene device that can generate spin-dependent negative differential resistance (NDR). The device is composed of a sufficiently wide and short graphene and two gated EuO strips deposited on top of it. This scheme avoids…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-26 Yu Song , Yang Liu , Xiaolong Feng , Fei Yan , Wei-Zhi Zhang

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

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

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

Ballistic quantum transport calculations based on the non-equilbrium Green's function formalism show that field-effect transistor devices made from chevron-type graphene nanoribbons (CGNRs) could exhibit negative differential resistance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Samuel Smith , Juan-Pablo Llinás , Jeffrey Bokor , Sayeef Salahuddin

Negative differential conductance (NDC), characterized by the decreasing current with increasing voltage, has attracted continuous attention for its various novel applications. The NDC typically exists in a certain range of bias voltages…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-04 Si-Yu Li , Haiwen Liu , Jia-Bin Qiao , Hua Jiang , Lin He
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