Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2011,2, 814–823, doi:10.3762/bjnano.2.90
used to explore current-induced dynamics and instabilities. We find instabilities at experimentally relevant bias and gate voltages for the carbon-chain system.
Keywords: carbon-nanoelectronics; current-induced forces; molecular contacts; nanoscaleJouleheating; semiclassical Langevin equation
][20], their stability [21], and electron-transport properties [22][23][24]. Here we explore the current-induced forces and nanoscaleJouleheating of the carbon chain system between electrically gated graphene electrodes.
The paper is organized as follows. After a brief outline of the semiclassical
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Figure 1:
The system considered in the present study is a four-atom carbon chain bridging two graphene electr...