Unique Structural and Transport Properties of Molybdenum Chalcohalide Nanowires
- 24 August 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 99 (8), 085503
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.99.085503
Abstract
We combine ab initio density functional and quantum transport calculations based on the nonequilibrium Green’s function formalism to compare structural, electronic, and transport properties of nanowires with carbon nanotubes. We find systems with to be particularly stable and rigid, with their electronic structure and conductance close to that of metallic (13,13) single-wall carbon nanotubes. nanowires are conductive irrespective of their structure, more easily separable than carbon nanotubes, and capable of forming ideal contacts to Au leads through thio groups.
Keywords
This publication has 24 references indexed in Scilit:
- Li doped Mo6S6 nanowires: elastic and electronic propertiesPhysica Status Solidi (b), 2006
- An Efficient a Posteriori Treatment for Dispersion Interaction in Density-Functional-Based Tight BindingJournal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 2005
- Electronic properties and ideal tensile strength of MoSe nanowiresPhysical Review B, 2002
- The SIESTA method forab initioorder-Nmaterials simulationJournal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2002
- Ab initiomodeling of quantum transport properties of molecular electronic devicesPhysical Review B, 2001
- Construction of tight-binding-like potentials on the basis of density-functional theory: Application to carbonPhysical Review B, 1995
- Clusters of Valence Electron Poor Metals—Structure, Bonding, and PropertiesAngewandte Chemie-International Edition, 1988
- Self-interaction correction to density-functional approximations for many-electron systemsPhysical Review B, 1981
- Self-Consistent Equations Including Exchange and Correlation EffectsPhysical Review B, 1965
- Inhomogeneous Electron GasPhysical Review B, 1964