voltage drop in the symmetrical junction

A symmetrical junction may mean a lot of things.

What do you mean by symmetric?

Also to plot the voltage drop you should plot the Hartree potential difference (electrostatic potential) and not the total potential. The total potential includes XC potential which isn't part of the voltage drop.

Dear Papior

Thank you for your reply!

I mean the geometry is symmetrical, when I run transiesta calculation.

Follow you suggestion, I plot the Hartree electrostatic potential difference, and it's still not symmetrical.

zhikai

1. We can't see what you see, is it far off, or only slightly off?
2. If there are errors in your calculation setup, then that propagates through to the results.
3. Which version are you using?

Hello Nick,

I think it is far off. Here is the contour of the junction, https://pan.baidu.com/s/19V3BQgg7loTZ1JYybAp0iw

And my input fdf is right here, https://pan.baidu.com/s/19V3BQgg7loTZ1JYybAp0iw

I'm using the siesta-4.1-b2

zhikai

sorry, my input fdf is right here, https://pan.baidu.com/s/13_5xSvVOPc6UBYlyCz996g

I can't figure out your links, it's chinese and I have no idea what to press.

Secondly, 4.1-b3 is available. Please use that one.

Hi Nick,

How about this link, the picture shows voltage drop under 0.5V bias
https://imgur.com/a/F8biguV

The input fdf is as follow

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zhikai

1) Even though your system is symmetric it does not mean that you will get a linear potential drop. Probably you will get two step potentials.
2) From the image it seems clear that your calculation setup is wrong.
a) If your electrode is comprising 2 layers, then the electrode is too short. In this case transiesta would even die because of this.
b) (I guess this is your calculation). Your electrode is comprising 4 layers, however, there is no extended electrode region to screen off the defect with the device.

Please carefully read the manual, and/or read our latest transiesta article describing this.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001046551630306X