Transverse Electronic Transport through DNA Nucleotides with Functionalized Graphene Electrodes

Details Transverse Electronic Transport through DNA Nucleotides with Functionalized Graphene Electrodes Transverse Electronic Transport through DNA Nucleotides with Functionalized Graphene Electrodes

2012-02-14

arxiv.org/abs/1202.3040v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics

19 pages, 7 figures

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Graphene nanogaps and nanopores show potential for the purpose of electrical DNA sequencing, in particular because single-base resolution appears to be readily achievable. Here, we evaluated from first principles the advantages of a nanogap setup with functionalized graphene edges. To this end, we employed density functional theory and the non-equilibrium Green's function method to investigate the transverse conductance properties of the four nucleotides occurring in DNA when located between the opposing functionalized graphene electrodes. In particular, we determined the electrical tunneling current variation as a function of the applied bias and the associated differential conductance at a voltage which appears suitable to distinguish between the four nucleotides. Intriguingly, we observe for one of the nucleotides a negative differential resistance effect.

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