First-principles versus semi-empirical modeling of global and local electronic transport properties of graphene nanopore-based sensors for DNA sequencing

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 847-856

  Chang, Po Hao ^a   Liu, Haiying ^a,b   Nikolić, Branislav K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JINAN   (China)

Author keywords

DNA sequencing; First principles quantum transport; Graphene nanoribbons; Nanopores

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; CHARGE DENSITY; COMPUTATION THEORY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; DESIGN FOR TESTABILITY; DNA; GENE ENCODING; GRAPHENE; GREEN'S FUNCTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NANOPORES; NANORIBBONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS;

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL TIGHT BINDINGS; DNA SEQUENCING; ELECTRONIC TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; FIRST-PRINCIPLES QUANTUM TRANSPORTS; GRAPHENE NANORIBBONS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS TRAJECTORIES; NONEQUILIBRIUM GREEN FUNCTION FORMALISMS; SEMI-EMPIRICAL METHODOLOGY;

DNA SEQUENCES;

EID: 85027945484     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: 15728137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-014-0614-8     Document Type: Article

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