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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

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…

Hexagonal boron nitride ($h$-BN), with its strong in-plane bonding and good lattice match to hcp and fcc metals, offers a promising alternative barrier material for magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs). Here, we investigate spin-dependent…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-01 Ivan Kurniawan , Keisuke Masuda , Yoshio Miura

Time series measurements in 2H-NbS$_2$ crystal had unravelled a drive induced transition wherein the critical current (Ic) changes from a low to a high Ic jammed vortex state, via a negative differential resistance (NDR) transition. Here,…

Superconductivity · Physics 2021-12-01 Biplab Bag , Sourav M. Karan , Gorky Shaw , A. K. Sood , A. K. Grover , S. S. Banerjee

We determine the conditions in which negative differential resistance (NDR) appears in the C$_{60}$-based molecular device of [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 100}, 036807 (2008)] by means of ab-initio electron-transport simulations. Our calculations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Frederico D. Novaes , Manuel Cobian , Alberto Garcia , Pablo Ordejon , Hiromu Ueba , Nicolas Lorente

Transport properties of a gated nanostructure depend crucially on the coupling of its states to the states of electrodes. In the case of a single quantum dot the coupling, for a given quantum state, is constant or can be slightly modified…

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

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

The nonlinear spin-dependent transport properties in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) edge doped by an atom of group III and V elements are studied systematically using density functional theory combined with non-equilibrium Greens…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 C. Jiang , X. F. Wang , M. X. Zhai

A Gallium interstitial defect (Ga$_{\textrm{i}}$) is thought to be responsible for the spectacular spin-dependent recombination (SDR) in GaAs$_{1-x}$N$_x$ dilute nitride semiconductors. Current understanding associates this defect with two…

We report a bi-polar multiple periodic negative differential conductance (NDC) effect on a single cage-shaped Ru nanoparticle measured using scanning tunneling spectroscopy. This phenomenon is assigned to the unique multiply-connected cage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-13 Yehonadav Bekenstein , Kathy Vinokurov , Tal J. Levy , Eran Rabani , Uri Banin , Oded Millo

The influence of insertion of an ultra-thin NiO layer between the MgO barrier and ferromagnetic electrode in magnetic tunnel junctions has been investigated by measuring the tunneling magnetoresistance and the X-ray magnetic circular…

The electronic nonlinear transport through ultra narrow graphene nanoribbons (sub-$10nm$) is studied. A stable region of negative differential resistance (NDR) appears in the I-V characteristic curve of {\it odd} zigzag graphene nanoribbons…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-14 Hosein Cheraghchi

Vertically stacked two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures based on graphene electrodes represent a promising architecture for next-generation electronic devices. However, their first-principles characterizations have been…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 Tae Hyung Kim , Juho Lee , Ryong-Gyu Lee , Yong-Hoon Kim

Current Induced Resistance Switching (CIS) was recently observed in thin tunnel junctions (TJs) with ferromagnetic (FM) electrodes and attributed to electromigration of metallic atoms in nanoconstrictions in the insulating barrier. The CIS…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Ventura , Z. Zhang , Y. Liu , J. B. Sousa , P. P. Freitas

We simulate quantum transport between a graphene nanoribbon (GNR) and a single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) where electrons traverse vacuum gap between them. The GNR covers CNT over a nanoscale region while their relative rotation is 90…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Kamal K. Saha , Branislav K. Nikolic

Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy are employed to investigate electron tunneling from a C60-terminated tip into a Cu(111) surface. Tunneling between a C60 orbital and the Shockley surface states of copper is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-09 B. W. Heinrich , M. V. Rastei , D. -J. Choi , T. Frederiksen , L. Limot

The negative differential resistance (NDR) tunnel diodes are promising alternative devices for beyond-CMOS computing as they offer several potential applications when integrated with transistors. We propose a novel semiconductor-free NDR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-26 Ersoy Sasioglu , Ingrid Mertig

We demonstrate, based on low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy, a pronounced negative differential resistance (NDR) in spin-crossover (SCO) molecular devices, where a Fe$^{\text{II}}$ SCO molecule is deposited…

A negative differential resistance (NDR) in the nanotransport is often ascribed to electron correlations. We present a simple example which demonstrates that finite electrode bandwidths and energy dependent electrode density of states are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-05-12 Ioan Baldea , Horst Koppel