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Title
Transport characteristics of multi-terminal pristine and defective phosphorene systems
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Abstract
Atomic vacancies and nanopores act as local scattering centers and modify the transport properties of charge carriers in phosphorene nanoribbons (PNRs). We investigate the influence of such atomic defects on the electronic transport of multi-terminal PNR. We use the non-equilibrium Green's function approach within the tight-binding framework to calculate the transmission coefficient and the conductance. Terminals induce band mixing resulting in oscillations in the conductance. In the presence of atomic vacancies and nanopores the conductance between non-axial terminals exhibit constructive scattering, which is in contrast to mono-axial two-terminal systems where the conductance exhibits destructive scattering. This can be understood from the spatial local density of states of the transport modes in the system. Our results provide fundamental insights into the electronic transport in PNR-based multi-terminal systems and into the ability of atomic defects and nanopores through tuning the transport properties.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Nanotechnology. - Bristol
Publication
Bristol : 2019
ISSN
0957-4484
DOI
10.1088/1361-6528/AB3961
Volume/pages
30 :45 (2019) , 11 p.
Article Reference
455705
ISI
000483049100001
Pubmed ID
31390597
Medium
E-only publicatie
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UAntwerpen
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Last edited 02.10.2024
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