Transport and noise in organic field-effect devices

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Abstract

The transport and fluctuation properties of organic molecules ordered parallel between two Au contact leads are investigated by the method of surface Green's function. From first-principles simulation the relevant hopping parameters are extracted and used to calculate nonlinear transport coefficients with respect to an external bias voltage. A staggering of conductance is found in dependence on the number of molecules squeezed in between the contacts. The thermal properties show an anomalous behavior whenever the voltage reaches the values of the molecular energy levels active for transport. The thermoelectric figure of merit shows a resonance allowing one to reach values even larger than one.

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Original languageEnglish
Article number085405
Pages (from-to)085405-1-12
Number of pages12
JournalPhysical review. B
Volume79
Issue number8
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Peer-reviewedYes

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WOS 000263816000067
Scopus 60949106817
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ORCID /0000-0002-2484-4158/work/142257492

Keywords

Keywords

  • DENSITY-FUNCTIONAL THEORY, TIME-DEPENDENT TRANSPORT, SUBSTITUTED OLIGOTHIOPHENES, QUANTUM TRANSPORT, CHARGE-TRANSFER, SCC-DFTB, ELECTRON, TIGHT-BINDING APPROACH, THIN-FILM, EFFECT TRANSISTORS