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| Author(s): |
Lucas Viani
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Física (IF/SBI) |
| Defense date: | 2006-11-16 |
| Examining board members: |
Maria Cristina dos Santos;
Fernando Alvarez;
Adalberto Fazzio
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| Advisor: | Maria Cristina dos Santos |
| Abstract | |
The present dissertation is devoted to the study of the effects on small fullerenes and 060 caused by the substitutional doping of boron and nitrogen for applications in molecular electronics. Electronic and structural properties of molecular rectifiers formed by small fullerenes doped with boron and nitrogen have been studied. The molecule C@C59 N has been investigated and its structural and electronic properties compared with those of the endofullerene N@C60 To study the doping of the fullerenes we used the semiempirical method Para metric Method 3 (PM3). Ground state conformations and heats of formation were obtained and used to investigate the relative molecular stability. We indentified the most favorable molecular substitution sites for the thermodynamic stability of each dopant. Among all small fullerenes investigated, the isomers of C50reached the largest stability when compared with 060 Molecular rectifiers with a structure of the type D-bridge-A, where D and A indicate electron donor and acceptor, respectively, were built with the most stable pairs found in the previous part of. The Density Functional Theory (DFT) with the functional BLYP and the base 6-31G* was used to calculate the electronic struc tures of the isolated molecules. Geometry optimizations and electronic structures of the pairs, were carried by DFT, B3LYP j3 21G*, method. The asymmetry of the charge transfer was assessed through the application of an externai electric field. We concluded that small fullerenes are promising candidates for the construction of molecular rectifiers. The properties of the hypothetical molecule C@C59 N were compared with those well known C60 , C59 N e N@C60 molecules. The binding energy of this molecule is comparable with that of the other fullerenes, in particular with that of its isomer N@C60 Due to the tendency of the azafullerene in forming dimers, the stability of the dimer (C@C59 N)2 was investigated. The molecular conformations and the electronic structures were obtained by the DFT, B3LYP/6-31G*, method. We con cluded that (C@C59 N) 2 molecule should be as stable as the azafullerene dimer. Our results point to the interesting possibility of using this system as a quantum bit. (AU) | |