In this report, we study nonlinear electrical behaviors found in vertical-architecture transistors based on wrap-around-gated gallium nitride (GaN) nanowires (NWs) by extending a one-dimensional case of the Landauer-Buttiker formula. Here, GaN NWs are considered “almost” ideal wires connecting drain and source terminals, with gate terminal serving to control flowing current. Unlike previous mod...

the magnetoresistance of a one-dimensional electron gas in a metallic ferromagnetic nanowire containing two atomic-size domain walls has been investigated in the presence of spin-orbit interaction. the magnetoresistance is calculated in the ballistic regime, within the landauer-büttiker formalism. it has been demonstrated that the conductance of a magnetic nanowire with double domain walls can ...

Electron transport across molecular junctions is a rapidly growing topic at the borderline between physics and chemistry. We review calculations which were done in the Landauer transport formalism for monovalent systems, ranging from clusters to fullerenes. A realistic description of molecular conductance can be achieved by a density functional based approach to the calculation of the electroni...

We illustrate how classical chaotic dynamics influences the quantum properties at mesoscopic scales. As a model case we study semiclassically coherent transport through ballistic mesoscopic systems within the Landauer formalism beyond the so-called diagonal approximation, i.e. by incorporating classical action correlations. In this context we review and explain the two main trajectory-based met...

This document describes the use of the electronic transport functionality that is implemented in the ONETEP code[1]. The implementation computes the ballistic Landauer-Büttiker conductance at zero bias through a device and associated properties using electronic structure derived from density functional theory (DFT). The calculation proceeds as a post-processing step after a ground-state single-...

We study the quantum transport through networks of diffusive wires connected to reservoirs in the Landauer-Büttiker formalism. The elements of the conductance matrix are computed by the diagrammatic method. We recover the combination of classical resistances and obtain the weak localization corrections. For arbitrary networks, we show how the Cooperon must be properly weighted over the differen...

Abstract. We have systematically investigated the ballistic electron transport in gold and silver nanoribbons using first principle methods. The electronic structure calculation is carried out “density functional theory” (DFT) within “SIESTA” code. While studied “non-equilibrium Green’s function” (NEGF) method combined with “Landauer-Buttiker” (LB) approach. explored along both armchair (AC) zi...

In this study, Polyaniline molecule (emeraldine base) is modeled as a molecular wire and the effects of the metal/molecule coupling strength and the molecule length on the current-voltage (I-V) characteristics are numerically investigated. Using a tight-binding Hamiltonian model, the methods based on Non-equilibrium Green’s function theory, Landauer formalism and Newns-Anderson model, our calcu...