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Deutsche Physikalische Gessellschaft IOP Institute of Physics

Current without external bias and diode effect in shuttling transport of nanoshafts

K Morawetz1,2,3, S Gemming1, R Luschtinetz4, L M Eng5, G Seifert4 and A Kenfack2

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A row of parallel ordered and coupled molecular nanoshafts is shown to develop a shuttling transport of charges at finite temperature. The appearance of a current without applying an external bias voltage is reported as well as a natural diode effect allowing unidirectional charge transport along one field direction while blocking the opposite direction. The zero-bias voltage current appears above a threshold of initial thermal and/or dislocation energy.


PACS

85.65.+h Molecular electronic devices

85.30.Tv Field effect devices

85.35.-p Nanoelectronic devices

Subjects

Electronics and devices

Semiconductors

Nanoscale science and low-D systems

Dates

Issue 10 (October 2008)

Received 20 June 2008

Published 10 October 2008



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