Advances and challenges in single-molecule electron transport

F Evers, R Korytár, S Tewari, JM Van Ruitenbeek - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
Electronic transport properties of single-molecule junctions have been widely measured by
several techniques, including mechanically controllable break junctions, electromigration …

Tuning molecular orbitals in molecular electronics and spintronics

WY Kim, KS Kim - Accounts of chemical research, 2010 - ACS Publications
With the advance of nanotechnology, a variety of molecules, from single atoms to large-
scale structures such as graphene or carbon nanotubes, have been investigated for …

Atomic-scale control of graphene magnetism by using hydrogen atoms

H González-Herrero, JM Gómez-Rodríguez, P Mallet… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Isolated hydrogen atoms absorbed on graphene are predicted to induce magnetic moments.
Here we demonstrate that the adsorption of a single hydrogen atom on graphene induces a …

Density-functional method for nonequilibrium electron transport

M Brandbyge, JL Mozos, P Ordejón, J Taylor, K Stokbro - Physical Review B, 2002 - APS
We describe an ab initio method for calculating the electronic structure, electronic transport,
and forces acting on the atoms, for atomic scale systems connected to semi-infinite …

[LIBRO][B] Handbook of nanoscience, engineering, and technology

WA Goddard III, D Brenner, SE Lyshevski, GJ Iafrate - 2002 - taylorfrancis.com
Nanotechnology, science, and engineering spearhead the 21st century revolution that is
leading to fundamental breakthroughs in the way materials, devices, and systems are …

Theory of rectification in tour wires: The role of electrode coupling

J Taylor, M Brandbyge, K Stokbro - Physical review letters, 2002 - APS
We report first-principles studies of electronic transport and rectification in molecular wires
attached to gold electrodes. Our ab initio calculation gives an accurate description of the …

Electrical transport through single-molecule junctions: from molecular orbitals to conduction channels

J Heurich, JC Cuevas, W Wenzel, G Schön - Physical review letters, 2002 - APS
We present an atomistic theory of electronic transport through single organic molecules that
reproduces the important features of the current-voltage (I− V) characteristics observed in …

Nonequilibrium magneto-conductance as a manifestation of spin filtering in chiral nanojunctions

MA García-Blázquez, W Dednam… - The Journal of Physical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
It is generally accepted that spin-dependent electron transmission may appear in chiral
systems, even without magnetic components, as long as significant spin–orbit coupling is …

A group-theoretic approach to the origin of chirality-induced spin-selectivity in nonmagnetic molecular junctions

W Dednam, MA García-Blázquez, LA Zotti… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Spin–orbit coupling gives rise to a range of spin-charge interconversion phenomena in
nonmagnetic systems where certain spatial symmetries are reduced or absent. Chirality …

Designing nanogadgetry for nanoelectronic devices with nitrogen‐doped capped carbon nanotubes

SU Lee, RV Belosludov, H Mizuseki, Y Kawazoe - Small, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A systematic analysis of electron transport characteristics for 1D heterojunctions with two
nitrogen‐doped (N‐doped) capped carbon nanotubes (CNTs) facing one another at different …