Field Effect Transistor in Nanoscale

Abstract

Weakly coupled molecular junctions are quite active and important field of research as they exhibit various non-linear transport phenomena.The principal investigator has investigated carrier transport through weakly coupled B2C2N2H6 (Benzene analogues) and BxCyNz (Napathalene analogues with x y z=10) molecules using quantum many body approach coupled with kinetic (master) equations. Interestingly, various types of non-linear current voltage characteristics, such as, negative differential conductance (NDC), rectifications, Coulomb staircase, which are hallmark of multistate transport devices, have been obtained. Source-drain voltage induced change in the occupation probabilities of low-lying many body states which are different in nature towards carrier transport, directly control the net current flowing through the molecular junctions. A few descriptors (the electrode contact points on two rings in case of naphthalene analogues)which directly dictate the behaviour of I-V characteristics were also found. These predictions would help the experimentalists to know what to expect depending on where the contacts are being probed. Further investigation on the effect of different kinds of perturbations such as, gate voltage and perpendicular optical magnetic field, over carrier flow through the molecular bridges was done. Interestingly, the principal investigator found that depending on the strength of the applied optical magnetic field, several phenomena, such as, switching off current, suppression of NDC features appear in the devices. Fundamentally, the applied perturbations modify both the site charge densities as well as occupation probabilities of transport active channels, resulting in a quite significant alteration in transport behaviour of these molecular junctions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 26, 2017
Accession Number
AD1033096

Entities

People

  • Swapan Pati

Organizations

  • Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Charge Carriers
  • Charge Density
  • Density Functional Theory
  • Electronic Mail
  • Electronics
  • Equations
  • Field Effect Transistors
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Molecular Electronics
  • Probability
  • Quantum Dots
  • Scientific Research
  • Semiconductors
  • Transistors
  • Transitions

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Quantum Chemistry
  • Semiconductor Device Technology

Technology Areas

  • Quantum Computing