Ye-Fei Li et al 2008 J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 20 415207 doi:10.1088/0953-8984/20/41/415207
Ye-Fei Li, Bing-Rui Li1 and Hao-Li Zhang
Show affiliationsA systematic investigation of the electronic transport properties of Haeckelite nanotubes using ab initio calculation is presented. The Haeckelite nanotube is coupled with Haeckelite nanotubes and bulk Au electrodes, respectively. Negative differential resistance and nonlinear conduction phenomena have been observed in the simulated I–V curves. Our results suggest that this behavior is attributable to the band mismatch between left and right electrodes, which implies that some intriguing electronic transport characteristics could be realized by using nanoscale electrodes.
Issue 41 (15 October 2008)
Received 9 May 2008, in final form 18 August 2008
Published 12 September 2008
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