Negative differential resistance in C60-based electronic devices

ACS Nano

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7205-7210

  Zheng, Xiaohong ^a,c   Lu, Wenchang ^a,b   Abtew, Tesfaye A ^a   Meunier, Vincent ^b,d   Bernholc, Jerry ^a,b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF SOLID STATE PHYSICS   (China)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

C 60; nonequilibrium Green functions; molecular device; negative differential resistance; quantum transport

Indexed keywords

ALKANE CHAINS; APPLIED BIAS; ELECTRONIC CONDUCTION; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; ELECTRONICS COMPONENTS; LOW BIAS; LOWEST UNOCCUPIED MOLECULAR ORBITAL; MOLECULAR ASSEMBLY; MOLECULAR DEVICE; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCES; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN FUNCTIONS; QUANTUM TRANSPORT; REVERSE CURRENTS;

CHEMICAL BONDS; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CHEMICAL RESISTANCE; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; EQUIPMENT; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS; MOLECULAR ORBITALS; MOLECULES; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; PARAFFINS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ELECTRON DEVICES;

EID: 78650726332     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn101902r     Document Type: Article

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