Journal Article10.1196/ANNALS.1292.014
TranSIESTA: a spice for molecular electronics
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TL;DR: The TranSIESTA method is used to investigate the electrical properties of three ring phenyl‐ethynylene oligomers (OPE) and results for the electrical effect of side groups and molecular conformations of the molecules are presented.
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Abstract: Our recently developed method, TranSIESTA, enables modelling of molecular electronic devices under operation conditions. The method is based on density functional theory, and calculates the self-consistent electronic structure of a nanostructure coupled to three-dimensional electrodes with different electrochemical potentials. It uses a full atomistic ab initio description of both the electrodes and the nanoscale device. The calculations reveal information about the scattering states, transmission coefficients, electron current, and non-equilibrium forces in the systems. In this paper we use the method to investigate the electrical properties of three ring phenyl-ethynylene oligomers (OPE). We present results for the electrical effect of side groups and molecular conformations of the molecules. The calculations indicate that molecular switching and negative differential conductance (NDC) are related to rotations of the middle phenyl ring.
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