Shuttle Mechanism for Charge Transfer in Coulomb Blockade Nanostructures

Details Shuttle Mechanism for Charge Transfer in Coulomb Blockade Nanostructures Shuttle Mechanism for Charge Transfer in Coulomb Blockade Nanostructures

1997-11-19

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9711196v2

Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 4526 (1998).

Physics

Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.4526

Room-temperature Coulomb blockade of charge transport through composite nanostructures containing organic inter-links has recently been observed. A pronounced charging effect in combination with the softness of the molecular links implies that charge transfer gives rise to a significant deformation of these structures. For a simple model system containing one nanoscale metallic cluster connected by molecular links to two bulk metallic electrodes we show that self-excitation of periodic cluster oscillations in conjunction with sequential processes of cluster charging and decharging appears for a sufficiently large bias voltage. This new `electron shuttle' mechanism of discrete charge transfer gives rise to a current through the nanostructure, which is proportional to the cluster vibration frequency.

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