中国物理B ›› 2017, Vol. 26 ›› Issue (12): 123101-123101.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/26/12/123101

• ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS • 上一篇    下一篇

Improvement of the thermoelectric efficiency of pyrene-based molecular junction with doping engineering

Mohammad Farid Jamali, Meysam Bagheri Tagani, Hamid Rahimpour Soleimani   

  1. Computational Nanophysics Laboratory(CNL), Department of Physics, University of Guilan, Rasht, P. O. Box 41335-1914, Iran
  • 收稿日期:2017-05-03 修回日期:2017-06-13 出版日期:2017-12-05 发布日期:2017-12-05
  • 通讯作者: Mohammad Farid Jamali, Meysam Bagheri Tagani, Hamid Rahimpour Soleimani E-mail:mfj_ss@yahoo.com;m_baghei33@yahoo.com;rahimpour@guilan.ac.ir

Improvement of the thermoelectric efficiency of pyrene-based molecular junction with doping engineering

Mohammad Farid Jamali, Meysam Bagheri Tagani, Hamid Rahimpour Soleimani   

  1. Computational Nanophysics Laboratory(CNL), Department of Physics, University of Guilan, Rasht, P. O. Box 41335-1914, Iran
  • Received:2017-05-03 Revised:2017-06-13 Online:2017-12-05 Published:2017-12-05
  • Contact: Mohammad Farid Jamali, Meysam Bagheri Tagani, Hamid Rahimpour Soleimani E-mail:mfj_ss@yahoo.com;m_baghei33@yahoo.com;rahimpour@guilan.ac.ir

摘要: In this study, the thermoelectric properties of pyrene molecule doped with boron and nitrogen atom at different sites of molecule are investigated using density functional theory and none-equilibrium Green's function formalism in the linear response regime. Our calculations show that when the impurities are added to the edge of the molecule, the anti-resonant peaks will appear in the transmission diagram in the vicinity of the Fermi energy level. So it increases the thermoelectric figure of merit of the system in comparison with the one that the impurity is located in the center of molecule. Additionally, the seebeck coefficient signs are not the same among the B, N, and N & B doped devices, indicating that the types of the carriers can be changed with different types of doping.

关键词: thermopower, pyrene, density functional theory, none-equilibrium Green's function method, doping

Abstract: In this study, the thermoelectric properties of pyrene molecule doped with boron and nitrogen atom at different sites of molecule are investigated using density functional theory and none-equilibrium Green's function formalism in the linear response regime. Our calculations show that when the impurities are added to the edge of the molecule, the anti-resonant peaks will appear in the transmission diagram in the vicinity of the Fermi energy level. So it increases the thermoelectric figure of merit of the system in comparison with the one that the impurity is located in the center of molecule. Additionally, the seebeck coefficient signs are not the same among the B, N, and N & B doped devices, indicating that the types of the carriers can be changed with different types of doping.

Key words: thermopower, pyrene, density functional theory, none-equilibrium Green's function method, doping

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  • 31.15.E-
31.15.bt (Statistical model calculations (including Thomas-Fermi and Thomas-Fermi-Dirac models)) 31.15.-p (Calculations and mathematical techniques in atomic and molecular physics) 05.60.-k (Transport processes)