Theory of an all-carbon molecular switch

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Contributors

  • TUD Dresden University of Technology
  • Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
  • University of Regensburg

Abstract

We study electron transport across a carbon molecular junction consisting of a C-60 molecule sandwiched between two semi-infinite metallic carbon nanotubes. It is shown that the Landauer conductance of this carbon hybrid system can be tuned within orders of magnitude not only by varying the tube-C-60 distance, but more importantly at fixed distances by (i) changing the orientation of the Buckminsterfullerene or (ii) rotating one of the tubes around its cylinder axis. Furthermore, it is explicitly shown that structural relaxation determines qualitatively the transmission spectrum of such devices.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Article number113410
Number of pages4
JournalPhysical review. B
Volume65
Issue number11
Publication statusPublished - 15 Mar 2002
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 84860357221
ORCID /0000-0001-8121-8041/work/142240831

Keywords

Keywords

  • NEGATIVE DIFFERENTIAL-RESISTANCE, SINGLE, TRANSPARENCY, CONDUCTANCE, TRANSISTOR