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中国物理学会期刊

连接位点和共轭长度调控分子结的量子干涉与热电性能

Adjusting quantum interference and thermoelectric performance in molecular junctions by connection site and conjugation length

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  • 量子干涉效应作为分子器件中独特性质,对器件电荷传输具有重要调节作用,这将为设计高开关比和高热电优值的器件提供助力.因此,本工作采用第一性原理计算结合非平衡格林函数方法,研究了扩展线性共轭分子结的热电输运性质.研究结果表明,量子干涉行为受分子连接位点所属子晶格的影响.当连接位点属于同一子晶格时,费米能级附近会出现相消干涉;而连接位点属于不同子晶格时,则表现为相长干涉.由于量子干涉的作用,分子结的电导对分子长度的依赖较弱.相比之下,塞贝克系数随分子长度显著增大,这主要源于最高占据分子轨道(HOMO)与最低未占据分子轨道(LUMO)之间能隙的减小.量子干涉效应与分子长度的协同调控可显著提升分子结的热电性能,其最大热电优值(ZT)可达到7.92.本研究结果为高性能分子热电器件的合理设计提供了重要的理论依据.

    Quantum interference effects, as a distinctive feature of molecular devices, play an important role in regulating charge transport, thereby providing support for the design of devices with high switching ratios and high thermoelectric figures of merit. Therefore, in this work, we investigate the thermoelectric transport properties of extended linear conjugated molecular junctions using first-principles calculations combined with the non-equilibrium Green’s function (NEGF) method. Multiple connection sites are considered at both ends of the acene in the central molecular region, as well as at the molecular termini and their connections with the anchoring atoms. The transmission function and molecular projected self-consistent Hamiltonian (MPSH) eigenstates of each device are calculated. When electrons are injected from the A(B) sublattice and collected at the A(B) sublattice, destructive interference occurs near the Fermi energy. In contrast, when electrons are injected from the A(B) sublattice and collected at the B(A) sublattice, it results in constructive interference. This demonstrates that, in extended linear conjugated molecular systems, the quantum interference characteristics can be effectively predicted solely based on whether the sub-lattice properties of the two terminal connection sites are identical. In addition, by varying the molecular length of acene, it is found that quantum interference effects weaken the length dependence of the electrical conductance. As the molecular length increases, the conductance does not exhibit a significant change. This behavior is in stark contrast to the exponential decay of conductance with length typically observed in molecular wires under coherent tunneling transport. Meanwhile, as the molecular length increases, the HOMO and LUMO resonance peaks shift toward the Fermi level by approximately 0.45 eV and 1.14 eV, respectively. The transmission function of the p-M-p(aa) molecular junction exhibits a more pronounced antiresonance feature, resulting in a significant increase in the Seebeck coefficient. When the energy approaches −0.01 eV, the Seebeck coefficient of the p-Hep-p(aa) configuration reaches a maximum value of 401 μV/K. Through the synergistic modulation of these two factors, the maximum ZT values of the p-Hep-p(aa)-based molecular junction reaches nearly 8.

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