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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…

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The synergistic effects of neutron and gamma ray radiated PNP transistors are systematically investigated as functions of the neutron fluence, gamma ray dose, and dose rate. We find that the damages show a `tick'-like dependence on the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-23 Yu Song , Ying Zhang , Yang Liu , Jie Zhao , Dechao Meng , Hang Zhou , Xiaofeng Wang , Mu Lan , Su-Huai Wei

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 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 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

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 have elaborately studied the electronic structure of 555-777 divacancy (DV) defected armchair edged graphene nanoribbon (AGNR) and transport properties of AGNR based two-terminal device constructed with one defected electrode and one N…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-27 Soubhik Chakrabarty , A. H. M. Abdul Wasey , Ranjit Thapa , G. P. Das

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

Using density functional theory and non-equilibrium Greens function technique, we performed theoretical investigations on the transport properties of several ZAZ SiNRs junctions,a similar kind of silicene molecules junction combined by…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-07 Dace Zha , Changpeng Chen , Jinping Wu

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-24 Alireza Rastkar Ebrahimzade , Badie Ghavami , Jaber Jahanbin Sardroodi , Sadegh Afshari , Mina Yaghoobi

Field effect transistors with channels made of graphene layer(s) were explored. The graphene layer(s) contacted a distributed array of well-separated semiconductor quantum dots (QDs). The dots were embedded in nano-structured hole-array;…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-26 Samarth Trivedi , Haim Grebel

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

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

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

A negative differential resistance (NDR) in a one-dimensional band insulator attached to electrodes is investigated. We systematically examine the effects of an electrode bandwidth and a potential distribution inside the insulator on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-11-12 Yasuhiro Tanaka , Kenji Yonemitsu

Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have emerged as promising candidates for nanoelectronic applications due to their widely tunable energy band gaps resulting from lateral quantum confinement and edge effects. Here we report on…

The effect of electric field, applied on systems in the nanoscale regime has attracted a lot of research in recent times. We highlight some of the recent results in the field of single molecule electronics and then move on to focus on some…

Materials Science · Physics 2008-10-11 S. Lakshmi , Sudipta Dutta , Swapan K. Pati

Usually the conductivity is quantized as the inverse of the resistivity, \rho=hc/ie^2, \sigma=ie^2/hc and the velocity versus the electric field is linear, v=\mu E where \mu is the mobility of the electrons.However,when the applied electric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Keshav N. Shrivastava

The Gunn effect consists of time-periodic oscillations of the current flowing through an external purely resistive circuit mediated by solitary wave dynamics of the electric field on an attached appropriate semiconductor. By means of a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 L. L. Bonilla , I. R. Cantalapiedra

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