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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…

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Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-31 Kedar Damle , Olexei Motrunich , David A. Huse

We have observed tunable negative differential resistance (NDR) in scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements of a double layer of C60 molecules on a metallic surface. Using a simple model we show that the observed NDR behavior is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Grobis , A. Wachowiak , R. Yamachika , M. F. Crommie

Altermagnets can replace ferromagnets in tunnel junctions, yielding large tunneling magnetoresistance, ultrafast switching, and low-power functionality. While most studies explore the linear-response regime, interesting features emerge at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Sajjan Sheoran , Luke Keenan , Declan Nell , Stefano Sanvito

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

We investigate the transport properties of pristine zigzag-edged borophene nanoribbons (ZBNRs) of different widths, using the fist-principles calculations. We choose ZBNRs with widths of 5 and 6 as odd and even widths. The differences of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-14 Jiayi Liu , Changpeng Chen , Lu Han , Ziqing Zhu , Jinping Wu

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…

We study the electronic and transport properties of two novel molecular wires made of atomic chains of carbon atoms (polyynes) capped with either, benzene-thiols or pyridines. While both molecules are structurally similar, the electrical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-10-14 V. M. García-Suárez , C. J. Lambert

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

Experimental results for sequential transport through a lateral quantum dot in the regime of spin blockade induced by spin dependent tunneling are compared with theoretical results obtained by solving a master equation for independent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. C. Rogge , F. Cavaliere , M. Sassetti , R. J. Haug , B. Kramer

The conductance-voltage spectrum of molecular nanostructures measured by scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) is generally assumed to reflect the local density of states of the molecule. This excludes the possibility of observing negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yongqiang Xue , Supriyo Datta , Seunghun Hong , R. Reifenberger , Jason I. Henderson , Cliff P. Kubiak

We investigate the electronic transport behavior of Fano-Anderson (FA) systems, consisting of a one-dimensional finite backbone chain and an attached side-group of varying length. The tight-binding model within the non-equilibrium Green's…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Koushik R. Das , Sudipta Dutta

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

Based on the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) technique and the Landauer-B\"{u}ttiker theory, the possibility of a molecular spin-electronic device, which consists of a single C$_{60}$ molecule attached to two ferromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-12-31 Alireza Saffarzadeh

Using first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that the magnetic exchange interaction and the magnetocrystalline anisotropy of biatomic Fe chains grown in the trenches of the 5x1 reconstructed Ir(001) surface depend sensitively on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Yuriy Mokrousov , Alexander Thiess , Stefan Heinze

The spin dependent charge transport in zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) has been investigated by the nonequilibrium Green's function method combined with the density functional theory at the local spin density approximation. The current…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ting-Ting Wu , Xue-Feng Wang , Ming-Xing Zhai , Hua Liu , Liping Zhou , Yong-Jin Jiang

The primary requirement for achieving spin-selective electron transfer in a nanojunction possessing a magnetic system with zero net magnetization is to break the symmetry between the up and down spin sub-Hamiltonians. Circumventing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Prabhab Patra , Santanu K. Maiti

Antiferromagnetic spintronics offers the potential for higher-frequency operations and improved insensitivity to magnetic fields compared to ferromagnetic spintronics. However, previous electrical techniques to detect antiferromagnetic…

Negative differential resistance (NDR) is tuned at junctions of electronically different dimer and trimer of Rose Bengal on an atomic flat gold (111) surface. Isolated molecule did not show any NDR. But it was induced to show double NDR…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-25 Anirban Bandyopadhyay , Y. Wakayama

A model of a spin valve in which electron transport between the magnetized electrodes is due to multistep tunneling is analyzed. Motivated by recent experiments on organic spin valves, we assume that spin memory loss in the course of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. C. Roundy , M. E. Raikh