Electron Transport Properties of Atomic Carbon Nanowires between Graphene Electrodes

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2009-10-21

arxiv.org/abs/0910.4006v2

J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2010, 132 (33), pp 11481-11486

Physics

Atomic and Molecular Clusters

8 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1021/ja909531c

Long, stable and free-standing linear atomic carbon wires have been carved out from graphene recently [Meyer et al: Nature (London) 2008, 454, 319; Jin et al: Phys: Rev: Lett: 2009, 102, 205501]. They can be considered as the extremely narrow graphene nanoribbons or extremely thin carbon nanotubes. It might even be possible to make use of high strength and identical (without charity) carbon wires as a transport channel or on-chip interconnects for field-effect transistors. Here we investigate electron transport properties of linear atomic carbon wire-graphene junctions by nonequilibruim Green's function combined with density functional theory. For short wires, linear ballistic transport is observed in odd-numbered wire but destroyed by Peirerls distortion in even-numbered wire. For wires longer than 2.1 nm as fabricated above, however, the ballistic conductance of carbon wire-graphene junctions is remarkably robust against the Peierls distortion, structural imperfections, and hydrogen impurity adsorption of the linear carbon wires except oxygen impurities. As such, the epoxy groups might be the origin of low conductance experimentally observed in carbon wires. Moreover, double atomic carbon wires exhibit negative differential resistance (NDR) effect.

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