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The Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism is a particularly powerful method to simulate the quantum transport properties of nanoscale devices such as transistors, photo-diodes, or memory cells, in the ballistic limit of…
The electronic conductance of a benzene molecule connected to gold electrodes via thiol, thiolate, and amino anchoring groups is calculated using nonequilibrium Green functions in combination with the fully selfconsistent GW approximation.…
The recent fabrication of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) field-effect transistors poses a challenge for first-principles modeling of carbon nanoelectronics due to many thousand atoms present in the device. The state of the art quantum transport…
The understanding and modeling of the heat transport across nanometer and sub-nanometer gaps where the distinction between thermal radiation and conduction become blurred remains an open question. In this work, we present a…
Whether diffuse mismatch model for electrons (DMMe) hold true in more general cases remains largely unexplored, especially in cases where at least one material does not behave like a free-electron metal and/or the interface is smooth enough…
The quantum conductance properties of pyrene molecule and its silicone-doped variant between semi-infinite aluminum nano-chains have been investigated by using the density functional theory (DFT) combined with the non-equilibrium Green…
An efficient implementation of the nonequilibrium Green function (NEGF) method combined with the density functional theory (DFT) using localized pseudo-atomic orbitals (PAOs) is presented for electronic transport calculations of a system…
Thermopower measurements of molecular junctions have recently gained interest as a characterization technique that supplements the more traditional conductance measurements. Here we investigate the electronic conductance and thermopower of…
We present a rigorous and computationally efficient method to do a parameter-free analysis of molecular wires connected to contacts. The self-consistent field approach is coupled with Non-equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) formalism to…
We present a formulation of a nonequilibrium Green's function method for thermal current in nanojunction atomic systems with nonlinear interactions. This first-principle approach is applied to the calculation of the thermal conductance in…
We present novel methods implemented within the non-equilibrium Green function code (NEGF) transiesta based on density functional theory (DFT). Our flexible, next-generation DFT-NEGF code handles devices with one or multiple electrodes…
In this work, we demonstrate the correspondence between first principle calculations and experimental measurements of size effects on thermal transport in SiGe alloys. Transient thermal grating (TTG) is used to measure the effective thermal…
By carrying out density functional theory (DFT) analysis within the Keldysh non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) framework, we investigate the quantum transport properties of Au-C60-Au molecular junctions from the first principles. We…
Thermal transport in low-dimensional semiconductors is crucial for advancing thermal management in nanoelectronics, quantum devices, and thermoelectric devices. Recent molecular dynamics (MD) studies have identified a nonmonotonic…
We use the non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method in the ballistic limit to provide a quantitative description of the conductance of graphene pn junctions - an important building block for graphene electronics devices. In this paper,…
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…
Molecular dynamics simulations of thiolate-protected and solvated gold nanoparticles were carried out in the presence of a non-equilibrium heat flux between the solvent and the core of the particle. The interfacial thermal conductance ($G$)…
A unified understanding of interfacial thermal transport is missing due to the complicated nature of interfaces which involves complex factors such as interfacial bonding, interfacial mixing, surface chemistry, crystal orientation,…
Stable organic radicals integrated into molecular junctions represent a practical realization of the single-orbital Anderson impurity model. Motivated by recent experiments for perchlorotriphenylmethyl (PTM) molecules contacted to gold…
Due to their structured density of states, molecular junctions provide rich resources to filter and control the flow of electrons and phonons. Here we compute the out of equilibrium current-voltage characteristics and dissipated heat of…