the effect of side quantum dots on conductance through four-quantum-dot combinations: study by non-equilibrium greens function method
;Z Darizin;M Bagheri;H Rahimpoor Soleymani
inorganica chimica acta2016Vol. 16pp. 123-126
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darizin2016iranianthe
Abstract
Electronic transport has been investigated in four-quantum-dot combination coupled to metal electrodes using the non-equilibrium Green’s function method, and curves I-V and conductance (dI/dV) were analyzed for special combination. We have showed that the emergence of negative differential conductivity is due to asymmetric distribution of quantum dots in the central region, existence of non-coupled dots (side quantum dots), and the interference effect. We found that more side quantum dots lead to more negative differential conductance.