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State-of-the-art industrial semiconductor device modeling is based on highly efficient Drift-Diffusion (DD) models that include some quantum corrections for nanodevices. In contrast, latest academic quantum transport models are based on the…

We present a novel implementation of the first-principles approach to molecular charge transport using the non-equilibrium Green's function formalism in combination with the ADF/BAND periodic band-structure DFT code, together with results…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-18 C. J. O. Verzijl , J. M. Thijssen

In our theoretical study where we combine a nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach with density functional theory (DFT) we investigate compounds containing a ferrocene moiety which is connected to i) thiol anchor groups on both…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Xin Zhao , Robert Stadler

While the vast majority of calculations reported on molecular conductance have been based on the static non-equilibrium Green's function formalism combined with density functional theory, in recent years a few time-depedent approaches to…

In this paper we develop the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) formalism for a dissipative molecular junction that consists of a central molecular system with one-dimensional electronic transport coupled to a phonon environment and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-12 Matthew A Lane , Lev Kantorovich

We simulate the electron transport across the Au(111)-pentacene interface using non-equilibrium Green's functions and density-functional theory (NEGF-DFT), and calculate the bias-dependent electron transmission. We find that the electrical…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-06-13 Kurt Stokbro , Søren Smidstrup

New two diemensional structures nanoribbon including phosphorus and germanium atoms are introduced for the nanoelectronic applications. Under various bias voltages, the electronic transport in the systems have been studied within the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-09 Maryam Azizi , Badie Ghavami

We review the description and modeling of transport phenomena among the electron systems coupled via scalar or vector photons. It consists of three parts. The first part is about scalar photons, i.e., Coulomb interactions. The second part…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jiebin Peng , Zu-Quan Zhang , Yong-Mei Zhang , Tao Zhu

Quantum transport simulations are essential for understanding and designing nanoelectronic devices, yet the long-standing trade-off between accuracy and computational efficiency has limited their practical applications. We present…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Jijie Zou , Zhanghao Zhouyin , Dongying Lin , Yike Huang , Linfeng Zhang , Shimin Hou , Qiangqiang Gu

Extended Huckel theory (EHT) along with NEGF (Non-equilibrium Green's function formalism) has been used for modeling coherent transport through molecules. Incorporating dephasing has been proposed to theoretically reproduce experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Hassan Raza , Edwin C. Kan

We present here a self consistent solution of quantum transport, using the Non Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) method, and magnetization dynamics, using the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) formulation. We have applied this model to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sayeef Salahuddin , Supriyo Datta

In this thesis we showed that Non-equilibrium Green's Function Perturbation Theory (NEGF) is really the overarching perturbative transport theory. This is shown in great detail by using NEGF as a starting point and developing in 3…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-05 Meng Lee Leek

The coherent quantum effect becomes increasingly important in the heat dissipation bottleneck of semiconductor nanoelectronics with the characteristic size shrinking down to few nano-meters scale nowadays. However, the quantum mechanical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Yangyu Guo , Marc Bescond , Zhongwei Zhang , Mathieu Luisier , Masahiro Nomura , Sebastian Volz

We study inelastic electron tunneling through a molecular junction using the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) formalism. The effect of the mutual influence between the phonon and the electron subsystems on the electron tunneling…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Galperin , Mark A. Ratner , Abraham Nitzan

Multi-terminal transport setups allow to realize more complex measurements and functionalities (e.g., transistors) of nanoscale systems than the simple two-terminal arrangement. Here the steady-state density functional formalism (i-DFT) for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Stefan Kurth , David Jacob , Nahual Sobrino , Gianluca Stefanucci

Using the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism, we propose a microscopic theory for near-field radiative heat transfer between metal plates. Tight-binding models for the electrons are coupled to the electromagnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Jian-Sheng Wang , Jiebin Peng

We introduce a combined density functional theory (DFT) and non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) framework to compute the capacitance of nanocapacitors and directly extract the dielectric response of a sub-nanometer dielectric under…

We present an ab initio approach to electronic transport in nanoscale systems which includes electronic correlations through the GW approximation. With respect to Landauer approaches based on density-functional theory (DFT), we introduce a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pierre Darancet , Andrea Ferretti , Didier Mayou , Valerio Olevano

The main goal of this paper is to put on solid mathematical grounds the so-called Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) transport formalism for open systems. In particular, we derive the Jauho-Meir-Wingreen formula for the time-dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-12 H. D. Cornean , V. Moldoveanu , C. -A. Pillet

We derive a general expression for the electron nonequilibrium (NE) distribution function in the context of steady state quantum transport through a two-terminal nanodevice with interaction. The central idea for the use of NE distributions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 H. Ness