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Recently, multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) have gained significant spotlight in the literature due to its high tunneling electro-resistance together with its non-volatility. In order to analyze such devices and to have insightful…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-07-02 Robert Andrawis , Kaushik Roy

In this paper, a theoretical approach, comprising the non-equilibrium Green's function method for electronic transport and Landau-Khalatnikov equation for electric polarization dynamics, is presented to describe polarization-dependent…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-15 Sou-Chi Chang , Azad Naeemi , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Alexei Gruverman

Tunneling electroresistance (TER) effect is the change in the electrical resistance of a ferroelectric tunnel junction (FTJ) associated with polarization reversal in the ferroelectric barrier layer. Here we predict that a FTJ with a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-26 M. Ye. Zhuravlev , Y. Wang , S. Maekawa , E. Y. Tsymbal

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

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

This review deals with the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method applied to the problems of energy transport due to atomic vibrations (phonons), primarily for small junction systems. We present a pedagogical introduction to the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-28 Jian-Sheng Wang , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Huanan Li , Juzar Thingna

Radiative heat transfer (RHT) at the nanoscale can vastly exceed the far-field blackbody limit due to the tunneling of evanescent waves, a phenomenon traditionally described by fluctuational electrodynamics (FE). While FE has been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-30 Yahan Liu , Tao Zhu

We investigate the aspects of the electron transport in the zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. The latter is an esoteric tool in mesoscopic physics and using this tool the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-03 Pankaj Bhalla , Surender Pratap

In a number of current experiments in the field of spin-caloritronics a temperature gradient across a nanostructured interface is applied and spin-dependent transport phenomena are observed. However, a lack in the interpretation and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-23 Jia Zhang , Michael Bachman , Michael Czerner , Christian Heiliger

Electron transport through fully depleted ferroelectric tunnel barriers sandwiched between two metal electrodes and its dependence on ferroelectric polarization direction are investigated. The model assumes a polarization direction…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-10-07 Daniel Pantel , Marin Alexe

We overview nonequilibrium Green function combined with density functional theory (NEGF-DFT) modeling of independent electron and phonon transport in nanojunctions with applications focused on a new class of thermoelectric devices where a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 Branislav K. Nikolic , Kamal K. Saha , Troels Markussen , Kristian S. Thygesen

We present an efficient implemention of a non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method for self-consistent calculations of electron transport and forces in nanostructured materials. The electronic structure is described at the level of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jingzhe Chen , Kristian S. Thygesen , Karsten W. Jacobsen

Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a carbon nanowire which is connected to ferromagnetic electrodes. The molecule itself is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak , Gloria Platero

With the rapidly increasing integration density and power density in nanoscale electronic devices, the thermal management concerning heat generation and energy harvesting becomes quite crucial. Since phonon is the major heat carrier in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-01 Zhizhou Yu , Guohuan Xiong , Lifa Zhang

The ferroelectric (FE) control of electronic transport is one of the emerging technologies in oxide heterostructures. Many previous studies in FE tunnel junctions (FTJs) exploited solely the differences in the electrostatic potential across…

The Discovery of giant tunnel electroresistance (TER) in Ferroelectric Tunnel Junction (FTJ) paves a futuristic possibility of utilizing the FTJ as a bistable resistive device with an enormously high ON/OFF ratio. In the last 20 years,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-02-11 Nilesh Pandey , Yogesh Singh Chauhan

The fully self-consistent non-equilibrium Green functions (NEGFs) approach to the quantum transport is developed for the investigation of one-dimensional nano-scale devices. Numerical calculations performed for resonant tunneling diodes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Van Nam Do , Philippe Dollfus , Van Lien Nguyen

We study the nonlinear elastic quantum electronic transport properties of nanoscopic devices using the Nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method. The Green's function method allows us to expand the $I-V$ characteristics of a given…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Organic multiferroic tunnel junctions (OMFTJs) with multi-resistance states have been proposed and drawn intensive interests due to their potential applications, for examples of memristor and spintronics based synapse devices. The…

Using a simple quantum-mechanical model, we explore a tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance (TAMR) effect in ferroelectric tunnel junctions (FTJs) with a ferromagnetic electrode and a ferroelectric barrier layer, which spontaneous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 A. Alexandrov , M. Ye. Zhuravlev , Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
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