Electronic transport properties of the armchair silicon carbide nanotube

The electronic transport properties of the armchair silicon carbide nanotube(SiCNT) are investigated by using the combined nonequilibrium Green’s function method with density functional theory.In the equilibrium transmission spectrum of the nanotube,a transmission valley of about 2.12 eV is discovered around Fermi energy,which means that the nanotube is a wide band gap semiconductor and consistent with results of first principle calculations. More important,negative differential resistance is found in its current voltage characteristic.This phenomenon originates from the variation of density of states caused by applied bias voltage.These investigations are meaningful to modeling and simulation in silicon carbide nanotube electronic devices.