Electronic, magnetic and transport properties of nanostructures

• Grant number: 10/16202-3
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2011
• End date: November 30, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics
• Principal Investigator: Adalberto Fazzio
• Grantee: Adalberto Fazzio
• Host Institution: Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Pesquisadores principais: Antonio José Roque da Silva ; Gustavo Martini Dalpian
• Associated researchers: Alexandre Reily Rocha ; Gustavo Martini Dalpian ; Jeverson Teodoro Arantes Junior ; Márcio Teixeira do Nascimento Varella ; Paulo Cesar Piquini ; Pedro Paulo de Mello Venezuela ; Roberto Hiroki Miwa ; Tome Mauro Schmidt ; Wanderlã Luis Scopel
• Associated research grant(s): 15/08086-7 - Electronic transport in 3D-topological insulators, AV.BR; 11/14185-7 - UFABC/Universidad de Antioquia collaboration: understanding defects, impurities and surfaces in wide band gap semiconductor oxide nanostructures, AV.EXT
• Associated scholarship(s): 13/24795-2 - Interaction between the O2 molecule and the ZnO surface, BP.IC; 11/23084-0 - Graphene nanobiosensors: electronic transport properties, BP.PD; 11/21719-8 - Ab initio simulations of memristive systems: from the raw material to the device, BP.DR

Abstract

The objective of this project is to study the physical properties of new materials, using "state of the art" ab initio methods, focusing in nanosystems. Our group already has "expertise" in this area, and we plan to give continuity to previous projects considering two main points: i) Understanding and functionalizing materials, such as: structures 0D, 1D and 2D made of carbon, zinc oxide, silicon, boron nitride, etc... (ii) Development of algorithms to understand the properties of nanoscale systems such as charge transport, electron-phonon interaction, thermal properties, dual-gate devices, the inclusion of spin-orbit in transport phenomena, and electron transport in the formalism of Time-Dependent-DFT. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

PADILHA, A. C. M.; RAEBIGER, H.; ROCHA, A. R.; DALPIAN, G. M.. Charge storage in oxygen deficient phases of TiO2: defect Physics without defects. SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, v. 6, JUL 1 2016. (10/16202-3, 15/05830-7, 11/19924-2, 11/21719-8, 13/22577-8)