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Assembly and Characterization of Biomolecular Memristors Consisting of Ion Channel-doped Lipid Membranes
Published on: March 9, 2019
Negative differential resistance, rectification, tunable peak-current position and switching effects in an
Alireza Kokabi1, Shoeib Babaee Touski1, Amir Mamdouh1
1Department of Electrical Engineering, Hamedan University of Technology, Hamedan, Iran.
Abstract:
The transport properties of a molecular bio-electronic device based on the alanine amino-acid are investigated. The considered device consists of an alanine molecule as the central potential-dot coupled to two zigzag graphene nanoribbon (ZGNR) conducting electrodes. The current-voltage characteristics of this dual tunnelling molecular junction are studied at two different optimised compositions of the central molecule. The proposed amino-acid based structure utilises the tunnelling coupling similar to that of semiconducting single-electron transistors (SETs) to avoid complications due to the atomic interfaces. The current-voltage characteristics show polarity-dependent behaviour making the device feasible of being applied as a molecular rectifier. Negative differential resistance (NDR) along with tuneable peak-current position has been also observed in the current-voltage characteristics. The device is also capable of being applied as a switch controllable by the central molecule orientation.
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