TY  - JOUR
AU  - Tsukamoto, Shigeru
AU  - Ono, Tomoya
AU  - Egami, Yoshiyuki
TI  - Ballistic Electron Transport Through Nanostructure Junctions from a Real-Space Finite-Difference Approach
JO  - Quantum Matter
VL  - 4
IS  - 5
SN  - 2164-7623
CY  - Valencia, Calif.
PB  - American Scientific Publishers
M1  - FZJ-2015-07446
SP  - 403 - 415
PY  - 2015
AB  - In this article we briefly overview our theoretical studies on ballistic electron transport through nanoscale junction structures by means of our first-principles electron transport calculation method based on the real-space finite difference formalism within the framework of the density functional theory. In particular, we have theoretically explored the possibility to specifically tune the electron transport properties of benzene-based molecular junctions by the physically and chemically functionalization. Moreover, we have also studied the ballistic scattering of propagating electrons at a single impurity in a Ge dimer row by employing a semi-infinite electrode system, which is more realistic than conventional periodic models. 
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
DO  - DOI:10.1166/qm.2015.1213
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/279434
ER  -