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Effect of Bending on the Electrical Characteristics of Flexible Organic Single Crystal-based Field-effect Transistors
Published on: November 7, 2016
Effect of the orientation of nitro group on the electronic transport properties in single molecular field-effect
Yuqing Xu1, Bin Cui, Guomin Ji
1School of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, Peoples Republic of China.
Abstract:
Molecular devices with nitro groups display unique electronic transport properties in experiments. By applying the non-equilibrium Green's function combined with density functional theory, we find that the orientation of the nitro group with respect to the backbone of the molecule has a crucial effect on the device performance and can show unusual experimental phenomena. Furthermore, molecular devices with a nitro group are sensitive to gate voltage and suitable for making effective single molecular field-effect transistors. These results provide an important theoretical support to experiments and the design of future molecular devices by using nitro groups.
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