Theoretical calculation of electron transport properties of the Au-Si60-Au molecular junctions

Liu Fu-Ti; Cheng Yan; Chen Xiang-Rong; Cheng Xiao-Hong; Zeng Zhi-Qiang

doi:10.7498/aps.63.177304

Abstract

The ground structure of Si60 clusters, which was obtained by optimization when using the density functional theory method, is a fullerene structure with C1 point group, a diameter 1.131 nm, the average bond length 0.239 nm, and the difference between the energies of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital and the highest occupied molecular orbital is 0.72 eV. A Si60 cluster with optimized structure is sandwiched between two semi-infinite Au(100)-44 electrodes, and the Au-Si60-Au molecular junctions is constructed, whose electron transport properties is investigated with a combination of density functional theory and non-equilibrium Green's function method. When the distance between the two electrodes is 1.74 nm, the equilibrium conductance of the junctions is 1.93 G0 (G0=2e2/h). In the range of voltage from -2.02.0 V, we have calculated the current and conductance under different voltages, and find that the Ⅰ-Ⅴ curve of the junctions show linear characteristics. We also analyze the properties of transport from transmission and frontier molecular orbitals, and discuss the relationship of transfer charge with conductance.

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Authors and contacts

1.
College of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Yibin university, Yibin 644007, China;
2.
College of Physical Science and Technology, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, China;
3.
Computational Physics Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province of Yibin university, Yibin 644007, China
Funds: Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11174214, 11204192), the Research Project of Education Department in Sichuan Province, China (Grant No. 13ZB0207), and the Scientific Research Project of Yibin University, China (Grant No. 2013YY05).

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