Negative differential resistance in the unsymmetrical C121-based molecular junction

Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics

Volumn 375, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 2639-2643

  Zhao, P ^a   Liu, D S ^b,c   Zhang, Y ^a   Su, Y ^a   Li, S J ^a   Chen, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

^b SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c JINING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Electronic transport; Fullerene; Negative differential resistance; Non equilibrium Green's function

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; FULLERENES; NEGATIVE RESISTANCE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

CURRENT VOLTAGE CURVE; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL RESISTANCES; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION; NON-EQUILIBRIUM GREEN'S FUNCTION FORMALISM; SINGLE MOLECULAR DEVICES;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 79958833216     PISSN: 03759601     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physleta.2011.05.044     Document Type: Article

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