| CONDENSED MATTER: ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE, ELECTRICAL, MAGNETIC, AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES |
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Electronic Transport Properties of Diblock Co-Oligomer Molecule Devices Sandwiched between Nitrogen Doping Armchair Graphene Nanoribbon Electrodes |
| Meng Ye, Cai-Juan Xia**, Ai-Yun Yang, Bo-Qun Zhang, Yao-Heng Su, Zhe-Yan Tu, Yue Ma |
School of Science, Xi'an Polytechnic University, Xi'an 710048
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Meng Ye, Cai-Juan Xia, Ai-Yun Yang et al 2017 Chin. Phys. Lett. 34 117101 |
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Abstract We investigate the electronic transport properties of dipyrimidinyl-diphenyl sandwiched between two armchair graphene nanoribbon electrodes using the nonequilibrium Green function formalism combined with a first-principles method based on density functional theory. Among the three models M1–M3, M1 is not doped with a heteroatom. In the left parts of M2 and M3, nitrogen atoms are doped at two edges of the nanoribbon. In the right parts, nitrogen atoms are doped at one center and at the edges of M2 and M3, respectively. Comparisons of M1, M2 and M3 show obvious rectifying characteristics, and the maximum rectification ratios are up to 42.9 in M2. The results show that the rectifying behavior is strongly dependent on the doping position of electrodes. A higher rectification ratio can be found in the dipyrimidinyl-diphenyl molecular device with asymmetric doping of left and right electrodes, which suggests that this system has a broader application in future logic and memory devices.
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Received: 13 July 2017
Published: 25 October 2017
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71.15.Mb
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(Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections)
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73.23.-b
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(Electronic transport in mesoscopic systems)
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85.65.+h
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(Molecular electronic devices)
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| Fund: Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11504283 and 21503153, the Natural Science Foundation of Shaanxi Province under Grant No 2014JM1025, and the Science and Technology Star Project of Shaanxi Province under Grant No 2016KJXX-45. |
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