Giant Rectification Ratios of Azulene-like Dipole Molecular Junctions Induced by Chemical Doping in Armchair-Edged Graphene Nanoribbon Electrodes

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• 作者：Yang Song ; Zhen Xie ; Yong Ma ; Zong-liang Li ; Chuan-Kui Wang
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry C
• 出版年：2014
• 出版时间：August 14, 2014
• 年：2014
• 卷：118
• 期：32
• 页码：18713-18720
• 全文大小：533K
• ISSN：1932-7455

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Electron transport properties of an azulene-like dipole molecule anchored with carbon atomic chains sandwiched between two graphene nanoribbon (GNR) electrodes are theoretically investigated at the ab initio level. The molecular junctions are constructed with a strategy of modulating symmetry of Bloch wave functions. The chemical doping in an armchair-edged GNR is shown to play a significant role in determining the conductance behavior and rectifying performance of the molecular junctions. Giant rectification ratios up to 10⁴ at low bias voltages are obtained for the molecular junctions with asymmetric arrangement of undoped zGNR and doped aGNR electrodes. The boron (aluminum) dopants in the aGNR electrode induce a better rectifying performance for the molecular junctions than the respective nitrogen (phosphorus) dopants. Moreover, the boron or nitrogen doping is more advantageous than the respective aluminum or phosphorus doping in view of improving rectifying behaviors of the molecular junctions. Taking double doping in the aGNR electrode, we just demonstrate that the double boron-doping displays an improvement of rectifying features in comparison with the single case. The observed results are understood in terms of the transmission spectrum and the molecular projected self-consistent Hamiltonian as well as band structures of the electrodes with applied bias combined with symmetry analyses of Bloch wave functions of the corresponding subbands.