Negative differential resistance and threshold-switching in conical nanopores with KF solutions

[EN] Negative differential resistance (NDR) phenomena are under-explored in nanostructures operating in the liquid state. We characterize experimentally the NDR and threshold switching phenomena observed when conical nanopores are immersed in two identical KF solutions at low concentration. Sharp cu...

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Autores: Ramirez Hoyos, Patricio|||0000-0002-0067-4887, Perez-Grau, Jose J., Cervera, Javier, Nasir, Saima, Ali, Mubarak, Ensinger, Wolfgang, Mafé, Salvador
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/194924
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/194924
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Asymmetric Nanopores
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Sumario:[EN] Negative differential resistance (NDR) phenomena are under-explored in nanostructures operating in the liquid state. We characterize experimentally the NDR and threshold switching phenomena observed when conical nanopores are immersed in two identical KF solutions at low concentration. Sharp current drops in the nA range are obtained for applied voltages exceeding thresholds close to 1V and a wide frequency window, which suggests that the threshold switching can be used to amplify small electrical perturbations because a small change in voltage typically results in a large change in current. While we have not given a detailed physical mechanism here, a phenomenological model is also included.