By using first-principles calculations and nonequilibrium Green's function technique, we study elastic transport properties of crossed graphene nanoribbons. The results show that the electronic transport properties of molecular junctions can be modulated by doped atoms. Negative differential resistance (NDR) behaviour can be observed in a certain bias region, when crossed graphene nanoribbons are doped with nitrogen atoms at the shoulder, but it cannot be observed for pristine crossed graphene nanoribbons at low biases. A mechanism for the negative differential resistance behaviour is suggested.
Using the first-principles calculations,we investigate the electronic band structure and the quantum transport properties of metallic carbon nanotubes (MCNTs) with B/N pair co-doping.The results about formation energy show that the B/N pair co-doping configuration is a most stable structure.We find that the electronic structure and the transport properties are very sensitive to the doping concentration of the B/N pairs in MCNTs,where the energy gaps increase with doping concentration increasing both along the tube axis and around the tube,because the mirror symmetry of MCNT is broken by doping B/N pairs.In addition,we discuss conductance dips of the transmission spectrum of doped MCNTs.These unconventional doping effects could be used to design novel nanoelectronic devices.
