Title:	Exploring electronic and transport properties of nanomaterials: Applications to Nanoelectronics, DNA sequencing and Sensing
DNr:	SNIC 2016/1-243
Project Type:	SNIC Medium Compute
Principal Investigator:	Naresh Jena <jenanaresh@gmail.com>
Affiliation:	Uppsala universitet
Duration:	2016-06-01 – 2017-06-01
Classification:	10304 10403 10407
Homepage:	http://katalog.uu.se/empinfo/?id=N15-1665
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Abstract

This project envisions to explore several nanomaterials such as Carbon Nanotube, Graphene, and BN-graphene for a broad range of application involving Nanoelectronics, DNA sequencing and sensing. We plan to design nanoscale devices using the aforementioned nanostructures and our prime emphasis will be estimating a working device architecture where we will study the transport properties. We will be using non-equilibrium Green’s Function (NEGF) approach for transport calculations using Siesta and TranSiesta modules. Several factors such as choice of electrodes and efficient integrations of these nanomaterials in a working device set-up will be thoroughly estimated. Additionally, we will also investigate the electronic structures of these devices which will shed more light and guide us in designing efficient and robust nanodevices. We will also use VASP module for the detailed electronic structure calculations.