Influence of nanomechanical properties on single-electron tunneling: A vibrating single-electron transistor

By D. Boese, Herbert Schoeller Tfp, U. Karlsruhe, F. Karlsruhe, Int. 2000

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We describe single-electron tunneling through molecular structures under the influence of nanomechanical excitations. We develop a full quantum-mechanical model, which includes charging effects and dissipation, and apply it to the vibrating C60 single-electron transistor experiment by Park et al. (Nature, 407 (2000) 57). We find good agreement and argue vibrations to be essential to molecular electronic systems. We propose a mechanism to realize negative differential conductance using local bosonic excitations.

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Driven quantum transport on the nanoscale (2004, background): “Two particular problems addressed within model calculations are the conduction mechanism in the presence of electron-phonon coupling [21–23, 26–33] and the length dependence of the current-voltage characteristics [20,24].”