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With the development of microelectronics and the miniaturization of electronic devices, the use of molecular materials to construct various components in electronic circuits has become a most likely development trend. Compared with silicon-based semiconductor components, molecular electronic device has the advantages of small size, high integration, low energy consumption and fast response. In recent years, more and more molecules have been used to design molecular devices such as molecular diodes, molecular switches, molecular field effect transistors and molecular memories. In this paper, sandwich structure devices based on graphene nanoribbon electrodes are constructed. The first-principles calculation method combining density functional theory and non-equilibrium Green’s function is adopted to design the molecular devices with functional characteristics. The effects of redox reactions on the electrical transport properties of molecular devices are systematically discussed. The main research contents of this paper are as follows. The switching characteristics of an anthraquinone molecular device based on graphene electrode are studied. The zigzag-edge nanoribbons and armchair-edge graphene nanoribbons are selected as electrodes. Considering the two isomers of anthraquinone (HQ) and anthraquinone (AQ) molecules in the redox reaction, the double electrode molecular junction is constructed. The effects of redox reaction and electrode structure on the switching characteristics of anthraquinone molecular devices are discussed. It is found that the current in the HQ configuration is significantly greater than that in the AQ configuration, regardless of the zigzag-edge graphene electrode or the armchair-edge graphene electrode. That is, under the redox reaction, the anthraquinone molecules show significant switching characteristics. The switching ratio of zigzag-edge graphene electrode is selected to reach a maximum of 3125, and that of armchair-edge graphene electrode is selected to maximum of 1538. In addition, when the armchair-edge graphene is used as an electrode in the HQ configuration, the negative differential resistance is obviously between 0.7 and 0.9 V.
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Keywords:
- molecular switching device /
- density functional theory /
- nonequilibrium Green’s function /
- graphene
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图 1 电极-分子-电极分子器件模型
Figure 1. Geometrical structures of electrode-molecular-electrode molecular devices.
图 2 模型M1, M2, M3和M4的I-V曲线及开关比
Figure 2. I-V curves and switching ratios of model M1, M2, M3 and M4.
图 3 模型M1, M2, M3和 M4在0偏压下的透射谱
Figure 3. Transmission spectra of model M1, M2, M3 and M4 under zero bias.
图 4 模型M3在偏压0.7, 0.75, 0.8, 0.85和0.9 V下的透射谱
Figure 4. Transmission spectra of model M3 under 0.7, 0.75, 0.8, 0.85 and 0.9 V bias.
图 5 平衡状态下模型M1, M2, M3和M4在HOMO和LUMO轨道上的MPSH分布
Figure 5. MPSH distributions of HOMO and LUMO orbits of model M1, M2, M3 and M4 at zero bias.
图 6 模型M5, M6, M7和M8的I-V曲线及开关比
Figure 6. I-V curves and switching ratios of model M5, M6, M7 and M8.
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