Rode's Method: Theory and Implementation
06 Jul 2010 | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska
This set of teaching materials provides theoretical description of the Rode's method for the low field mobility calculation that is accompanied with a MATLAB code for the low field mobility calculation for GaAs material at different temperatures and different doping concentrations. Note that the...
Negative Differential Resistivity Exercise
28 Jun 2010 | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Parijat Sengupta, Dragica Vasileska
In certain semiconductors such as GaAs and InP the average velocity as a function of field strength displays a maximum followed by a regime of decreasing velocity. Hilsum, Ridley, and Watkins postulated that peculiarities in the band structure of semiconductors would lead to the above phenomenon....
Crystal Viewer Lab Exercise
28 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Parijat Sengupta, Dragica Vasileska
A central problem in the investigation of material properties involves the examination of the underlying blocks that aggregate to form macroscopic bodies. These underlying blocs own a definite arrangement that is repeated in three dimensions to give the crystal structure. We will try to explore...
Research Within Vasileska Group
29 Jun 2010 | Presentation Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska
This presentation outlines recent progress in reseach within Vasileska group in the area of random telegraph noise and thermal modeling, and modeling of GaN HEMTs.
Band Structure Lab Exercise
Investigations of the electron energy spectra of solids form one of the most active fields of research. Knowledge of band theory is essential for application to specific problems such as Gunn diodes, tunnel diodes, photo-detectors etc. There are several standard methods to compute the band...
Analytical and Numerical Solution of the Double Barrier Problem
Tunneling is fully quantum-mechanical effect that does not have classical analog. Tunneling has revolutionized surface science by its utilization in scanning tunneling microscopes. In some device applications tunneling is required for the operation of the device (Resonant tunneling diodes,...
Exercise for MOSFET Lab: Device Scaling
28 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
This exercise explores device scaling and how well devices are designed.
Bound States Calculation Lab - Fortran Code
19 Jun 2010 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska
This is a Fortran code for BSC Lab.
Piece-Wise Constant Potential Barrier Tool MATLAB Code
19 Jun 2010 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
this is the MATLAB code of the PCPBT in the effective mass approximation.
Periodic Potentials Exercise
16 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Parijat Sengupta, Dragica Vasileska
In this exercise, various calculations of the electronic band structure of a one-dimensional crystal are performed with the Kronig-Penney (KP) model. This model has an analytical solution and therefore allows for simple calculations. More realistic models always require extensive numeric...
Quantum Tunneling Exercise
Exercise BackgroundTunneling is fully quantum-mechanical effect that does not have classical analog. Tunneling has revolutionized surface science by its utilization in scanning tunneling microscopes. In some device applications tunneling is required for the operation of the device (Resonant...
Quantum Bound States Exercise
Exercise BackgroundQuantum-mechanical systems (structures, devices) can be separated into open systems and closed systems. Open systems are characterized with propagating or current carrying states. Closed (or bound) systems are described with localized wave-functions. One such system is a...
Crystal Viewer Tool Verification (V 2.3.4)
15 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
This text verifies the Crystal Viewer Tool by comparing the amount of dangling bonds at the silicon surface for [100], [110] and [111] crystal orientation. The crystal viewer results are in agreement with experimental findings.
Crystal Structures - Packing Efficiency Exercise
Consider the most efficient way of packing together equal-sized spheres and stacking close-packed atomic planes in three dimensions. For example, if plane A lies beneath plane B, there are two possible ways of placing an additional atom on top of layer B. If an additional layer was placed...
Physical and Mathematical Description of the Operation of Photodetectors
08 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska
This set of slides describes physical and mathematical description of the operation of photodetectors including important figures of merit.
Solve a Challenge for a PN Diode
08 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
This is SOLVE A CHALLENGE PROBLEM for pn-diodes.
Verification of the Validity of the PN Junction Tool
These simulations and comparisons with the depletion charge approximation prove the validity of the PN Junction tool.
Crystal Directions and Miller Indices
08 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): David K. Ferry, Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
Miller indices are a notation system in crystallography for planes and directions in crystal lattices. In particular, a family of lattice planes is determined by three integers, l, m, and n, the Miller indices. They are written (lmn) and denote planes orthogonal to a direction (l,m,n) in the...
Crystal Structures
In mineralogy and crystallography, a crystal structure is a unique arrangement of atoms in a crystal. A crystal structure is composed of a basis, a set of atoms arranged in a particular way, and a lattice. The basis is located upon the points of a lattice spanned by lattice vectors, which is an...
Multigrid Tutorial
This set of slides describe the idea behind the multigrid method and its implementation.
Conjugate Gradient Tutorial
This is an extensive tutorial on the description and implementation of the basic conjugate gradient method and its variants.
Poisson Equation Solvers - General Considerations
We describe the need for numerical modeling, the finite difference method, the conversion from continuous set to set of matrix equations, types of solvers for solving sparse matrix equations of the form Ax=b that result, for example, from the finite difference discretization of the Poisson...
Poisson Equation Solvers
There are two general schemes for solving linear systems: Direct Elimination Methods, and Iterative Methods.All the direct methods are, in some sense, based on the standard Gauss Elimination technique, which systematically applies row operations to transform the original system of equations into...
Tight-Binding Band Structure Calculation Method
This set of slides describes on simple example of a 1D lattice, the basic idea behind the Tight-Binding Method for band structure calculation.
Solar Cells Numerical Solution
This is an MS Thesis of Balaji Padmanabhan, a student of Prof. Vasileska. It describes numerical solution details for the 3D drift-diffusion equations as applied to modeling 1D-3D solar cells.