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Efeito de interferência quântica no transporte eletrônico de dispositivos "quasi"-unidimensionais
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2018-05-03) OLIVEIRA, Alexandre de Souza; SILVA, Shirsley Joany dos Santos da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/6060351208361634; DEL NERO, Jordan; http://lattes.cnpq.br/5168545718455899
The study of electronic transport in nano devices has been of great relevance in the last years, since the work of Aviran and Ratner, based on the properties of electrical conductivity in individual rectifying molecules under the action of an external electric field. The organic conjugated polymers in the pure state have low conductivity, but when doped, treated with reducing agents or connected to gold electrodes (Au) and subjected to an external electric field, they have a metallic behavior, that is, with high conductivity in line with experimental work. In this research we used devices composed of organic polymers conjugated in the pure state and also doped with chains containing simple (σ) and double (σ-π) type bonds, alternating between the carbons and these bound only to hydrogen atoms with gold electrodes (Au) connected at the ends of the individual molecules. This study was proposed for two types of electrodes: pyramid and plane. The model devices were optimized through the Extended Hückel Theory (EHT) and the computation of the electronic transport was performed using EHT combined with the Non-Equilibrium Green Function (NEGF). These devices are either quasi-1D or approximately linear structures and have been divided into two groups: the first, with odd numbers of carbon atoms from five (5) to nineteen (19) carbon atoms in their individual molecule (Group 1) and the second, with even numbers starting at six (6) going up to twenty (20) carbon atoms in its individual molecule (Group 2). The devices were subjected to two conditions: at low voltage, ranging from 0 to 0.1 Volt and then to high voltage, from 0 to 1.0 Volt. In order to compare the current and voltage (I - V) curves and the differential - voltage conductance (G - V) between low and high voltage results, the same voltage range was used, that is, from 0 to 0.1 Volt. For this work, the effects of destructive quantum interference (DQI) as well as constructive quantum interference (CQI) were analyzed. The effects of DQI are produced due to anti-resonance in the transmittance evidenced by unaccessed states observed in the transmission peaks, not allowing the transport to occur without presenting oscillations in the conductivity curve.
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Inversão gravimétrica do relevo do embasamento usando regularização entrópica
(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2007) OLIVEIRA, Alexandre de Souza; SILVA, João Batista Corrêa da; http://lattes.cnpq.br/1870725463184491
We present a new gravity inversion method, which estimates the basement relief of a sedimentary basin, whose sediments may present a constant or a decreasing density contrast with depth relative to the basement. The method combines the minimization of the first-order entropy measure with the maximization of the zeroth-order entropy measure of the solution vector (depths to the basement). The interpretation model consists of a set of rectangular juxtaposed vertical prisms with known density contrasts and whose thicknesses represent the depths to the basement relief and are the parameters to be estimated. The minimization of the first-order entropy favors solutions presenting abrupt discontinuities, and the maximization of the zeroth-order entropy is employed just to prevent its excessive minimization. We applied our method to synthetic data simulating: (i) intracratonic basins with smooth or discontinuous relief, and (ii) faulted marginal basins. In the case of a smooth basement relief, it was well delineated by the entropic regularization, and by the global and weighted smoothness. In the case of a faulted basement, either in intracratonic or marginal basins, the entropic regularization and the weighted smoothness delineated the basement relief with good precision, differently from the global smoothness. The entropic regularization, however, did not require the knowledge of the basin’s maximum depth. We applied our method to four sets of real Bouguer anomalies. The first one comes from a profile across a bridge located in the campus of the Federal University of Pará, Belém. The solution delineated the known, discontinuous topography below the bridge. The second set comes from the northern portion of Steptoe Valley, Nevada. The solution delineated a discontinuous basement relief in accordance with the known geological setting of the area. The third set comes from the San Jacinto graben, situated in California, United States. The solution indicated an asymmetric graben, as already reported by other authors. The fourth data set comes from the Büyük Menderes graben, western Turkey. The solutions presented large vertical displacements on the northern border, which is confirmed by geological information.