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The negative differential resistance (NDR) response of Nb/NbOx/Pt cross-point devices is shown to have a polarity dependence due to the effect of the metal/oxide Schottky barriers on the contact resistance. Three distinct responses are…

The electronic property of NiFe$_2$O$_4$ nanowire device is investigated through nonequilibrium Green's functions (NEGF) in combination with density functional theory (DFT). The electronic transport properties of NiFe$_2$O$_4$ nanowire are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-03 V. Nagarajan , R. Chandiramouli

Combining insights from quantum chemistry calculations with master equations, we discuss a mechanism for negative differential resistance (NDR) in molecular junctions, operated in the regime of weak tunnel coupling. The NDR originates from…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-10 Martin Leijnse , Wei Sun , Mogens Brøndsted Nielsen , Per Hedegård , Karsten Flensberg

Negative differential resistance (NDR) behavior observed in several transition metal oxides is crucial for developing next-generation memory devices and neuromorphic computing systems. NbO2-based memristors exhibit two regions of NDR at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Nitin Kumar , Jong E. Han , Karsten Beckmann , Nathaniel Cady , G. Sambandamurthy

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

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

We present the appearance of negative differential resistance (NDR) in spin-dependent electron transport through a few-atom spin-chain. A chain of three antiferromagnetically coupled Fe atoms(Fe trimer) was positioned on a Cu2N/Cu(100)…

We report the creation and characterization of a molecular-scale negative differential conductance (NDC) device by assembling a triangular trimer of 4,5,9,10-tetrabromo-1,3,6,8-tetraazapyrene (TBTAP) molecules on a superconducting Pb(111)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Chao Li , Vladislav Pokorný , Prokop Hapala , Martin Žonda , Ping Zhou , Silvio Decurtins , Shi-Xia Liu , Fengqi Song , Rémy Pawlak , Ernst Meyer

We have studied the transport properties of a molecular device composed of donor and acceptor moieties between two electrodes on either side. The device is considered to be one-dimensional with different on-site energies and the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 S. Lakshmi , Swapan K. Pati

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…

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 present a combined experimental and theoretical study to get insight into both memory and negative differential resistance (NDR) effect in organic memory devices. The theoretical model we propose is simply a one-dimensional metallic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-22 Yao Yao , Yintao You , Wei Si , Chang-Qin Wu

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have emerged as leading candidates for the development of low-power and multifunctional computing applications, thanks to their qualities such as layer-dependent band gap tunability, high carrier…

Metal-oxide-metal devices based on amorphous VOx are shown to exhibit one of two distinct negative differential resistance (NDR) characteristics depending on the maximum current employed for electroforming. For low compliance currents they…

Applied Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Sanjoy Kumar Nandi , Sujan Kumar Das , Caleb Estherby , Angus Gentle , Robert G. Elliman

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 present measurements of tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) in single-wall carbon nanotubes attached to ferromagnetic contacts in the Coulomb blockade regime. Strong variations of the TMR with gate voltage over a range of four conductance…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Alois Dirnaichner , Milena Grifoni , Andreas Prüfling , Daniel Steininger , Andreas K. Hüttel , Christoph Strunk

The Coulomb interaction between electrons of opposite spin orientations in a metal or in a doped semiconductor results in a negative off-diagonal component of the electrical resistivity matrix -- the so-called "spin-drag resistivity". It is…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Vignale

We study the low temperature electrical transport behaviour of a silicon single electron transistor. The island and leads are defined by patterned phosphorus doped regions achieved by ion implantation through a polymer resist mask. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. E. Hudson , A. J. Ferguson , C. Yang , D. N. Jamieson , A. S. Dzurak , R. G. Clark

Metal-based electronics is attractive for fast and radiation-hard electronic circuits and remains one of the longstanding goals for researchers. The emergence of 1T-TaS$_2$, a layered material exhibiting strong charge density wave (CDW)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Mehak Mahajan , Kausik Majumdar

We study interaction effects on transport through a small metallic cluster connected to two ferromagnetic leads (a single-electron spin-valve transistor) in the "orthodox model" for the Coulomb blockade. The non-local exchange between the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Wouter Wetzels , Gerrit E. W. Bauer , Milena Grifoni