• DocumentCode
    3596586
  • Title

    To expound superconductive quantum transport for C20 fullerene with disparate electrode material

  • Author

    Kaur, Milanpreet ; Sawhney, Ravinder Singh ; Engles, Derick

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electron. Technol., Guru Nanak Dev Univ., Amritsar, India
  • fYear
    2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    In this paper we expounded the optimal electrode material for fullerenes, being explored for the molecular electronics based applications. We scrutinized the largest curvature fullerene, C20 stringed to three different electrode materials viz. Copper, Silver and Gold using semi-empirical approach for this two probe modelling. We perceived that the transport phenomena for copper and silver electrodes throughout entire negative bias range were almost comparable with the similar set of response to the applied potential. However, for positive bias range, the transport phenomenon for Gold and Copper electrodes was comparable. Moreover, Silver Electrode configuration had least Conduction Gap with symmetric I-V curves. This leads to the conclusion that Silver electrodes offer more stability and linearity in its characteristics providing us with another ideal option for semiinfinite electrodes in nano world apart from Gold electrodes.
  • Keywords
    conduction bands; copper; electrodes; fullerenes; gold; silver; Ag; Au; C20; Cu; I-V curves; conduction gap; disparate electrode material; electrode configuration; fullerene; molecular electronics based applications; semiempirical approach; superconductive quantum transport; two probe modelling; Copper; Electrodes; Energy states; Gold; Junctions; Probes; Silver; C20 fullerene; Extended Hückel Theory (EHT) Non-Equilibrium Green´s Function (NEGF); Molecular Orbital (MO);
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Emerging Electronics (ICEE), 2014 IEEE 2nd International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-6527-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEmElec.2014.7151164
  • Filename
    7151164