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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 35: Postersession Transport: Nanoelectronics, Quantum Coherence and Quantum Information, Fluctuations and Noise
TT 35.8: Poster
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 14:00–18:00, P1A
Current without external bias and diode effect in shuttling transport of nanoshafts — •Klaus Morawetz1,2, Sibylle Gemming1, Regina Luschtinetz3, Lukas Eng4, Gotthard Seifert3, and Anatole Kenfack5 — 1Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, PF 51 01 19, 01314 Dresden, Germany — 2International Center for Condensed Matter Physics, 70904-910, Brasília-DF, Brazil — 3Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany — 4Institute of Applied Photophysics, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden, Germany — 5Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
A row of parallel ordered and coupled molecular nanoshafts is shown to develop a shuttling transport of charges at finite temperature. The appearance of a current without applying an external bias voltage is reported as well as a natural diode effect allowing unidirectional charge transport along one field direction while blocking the opposite direction[1]. The zero-bias voltage current appears above a threshold of initial thermal and/or dislocation energy.
[1] New J. Phys. 10 (2008) 103014-1-8