A Dramatic Odd-Even Oscillating Behavior for the Current Rectification and Negative Differential Resistance in Carbon-Chain-Modified Donor-Acceptor Molecular Devices

2013 ◽  
Vol 23 (21) ◽  
pp. 2765-2774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhenhua Zhang ◽  
Chao Guo ◽  
Denise Jeng Kwong ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Xiaoqing Deng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Differential Resistance ◽  
Differential Resistance ◽  
Carbon Chain ◽  
Molecular Devices ◽  
Donor Acceptor ◽  
Current Rectification

Effects of different tailoring graphene electrodes on the rectification and negative differential resistance of molecular devices

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (29) ◽  
pp. 1850323
Author(s):  
Ting Ting Zhang ◽  
Cai Juan Xia ◽  
Bo Qun Zhang ◽  
Xiao Feng Lu ◽  
Yang Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Transport ◽  
Negative Differential Resistance ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Graphene Nanoribbons ◽  
Differential Resistance ◽  
Voltage Characteristic ◽  
Molecular Devices ◽  
Current Voltage Characteristic ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Current Voltage

The electronic transport properties of oligo p-phenylenevinylene (OPV) molecule sandwiched with symmetrical or asymmetric tailoring graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) electrodes are investigated by nonequilibrium Green’s function in combination with density functional theory. The results show that different tailored GNRs electrodes can modulate the current–voltage characteristic of molecular devices. The rectifying behavior can be observed with respect to electrodes, and the maximum rectification ratio can reach to 14.2 in the asymmetric AC–ZZ GNRs and ZZ–AC–ZZ GNRs electrodes system. In addition, the obvious negative differential resistance can be observed in the symmetrical AC-ZZ GNRs system.

scholarly journals Multipeak negative differential resistance from interplay between nonlinear stark effect and double-branch current flow

RSC Advances ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (95) ◽  
pp. 52933-52939 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikołaj Sadek ◽  
Małgorzata Wierzbowska ◽  
Michał F. Rode ◽  
Andrzej L. Sobolewski
Keyword(s):  
First Principles ◽  
Negative Differential Resistance ◽  
Stark Effect ◽  
Current Flow ◽  
Differential Resistance ◽  
Molecular Devices

Multipeak negative differential resistance (NDR) molecular devices are designed from first principles.

Negative Differential Resistance Induced by Intermolecular Interaction in Molecular Device

2011 ◽  
Vol 181-182 ◽  
pp. 312-315
Author(s):  
Cai Juan Xia ◽  
Ying Tang Zhang ◽  
Xue Jun Zai
Keyword(s):  
Charge Transfer ◽  
Transport Properties ◽  
Molecular Complex ◽  
First Principles ◽  
Negative Differential Resistance ◽  
Differential Resistance ◽  
First Principles Calculation ◽  
Molecular Device ◽  
Applied Bias ◽  
Donor Acceptor

Based on nonequilibrium Green’s function and first-principles calculation, we investigate the transport properties of the molecule device with a donor-acceptor molecular complex sandwiched between two electrodes. Numerical results show that a negative differential resistance under applied bias can be observed. The mechanism of negative differential resistance is mainly induced by the orbital match of molecule and electrodes as well as intermolecular charge transfer.

Modulation of Low Bias Negative Differential Resistance in a Molecular Device by Adjusting Anchoring Groups

2014 ◽  
Vol 1070-1072 ◽  
pp. 479-482
Author(s):  
Li Hua Wang ◽  
Heng Fang Meng ◽  
Bing Jun Ding ◽  
Yong Guo
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Transport ◽  
Negative Differential Resistance ◽  
Density Functional ◽  
Function Method ◽  
Differential Resistance ◽  
Carbon Chain ◽  
Molecular Device ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
The Density Functional Theory ◽  
Anchoring Groups

We investigate electronic transport properties of molecular device models constructed by a dipyrimidinyl–dimethyl molecule embedding in a carbon chain, which are then coupled to the gold electrodes through thiol or isocyanide group. Using the density functional theory combined with the nonequilibrium Green’s function method, negative differential resistance behaviors are observed in such molecular junctions. Most importantly, system with the isocyanide group can achieve a larger negative differential resistance at lower bias voltage (0.1V).

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