ABACUS: Test for Carrier Statistics Tool

10 Aug 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this test is to give an idea to a self-learning students or to instructors in the case this test is used in a classroom the level of understanding of this topic when students have gone through the learning material, worked exercises and have completed the assignments and the …

Carrier Statistics - Temperature Effects

10 Aug 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

Silicon (Si), Germanium (Ge) and Gallium-Arsenide (GaAs) are commonly used materials for MOS Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) fabrication. MOSFET structures are commonly doped to achieve the desired switching operation and doping is a critical parameter in MOSFET designing. The goal in this test is …

ABACUS: MOSFET - Diffusion Process

09 Aug 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The goal of this assignment is to make familiar the students the required doses in the diffusion step of fabrication of semiconductor devices to get certain values of the volume doping densities.

ABACUS: Test for PN Junction Lab

09 Aug 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this test is to give an idea to a self-learning students or to instructors in the case this test is used in a classroom the level of understanding of this topic when students have gone through the learning material, worked exercises and have completed the assignments and the …

Description of the K.P Method for Band Structure Calculation

05 Aug 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

This set of slides describes the k.p mehod for band structure calculation.

ABACUS: Test for Crystal Viewer Tool

05 Aug 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this test is to give an idea to a self-learning students or to instructors in the case this test is used in a classroom the level of understanding of this topic when students have gone through the learning material, worked exercises and have completed the assignments and the …

ABACUS: Test for Periodic Potential Lab

05 Aug 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this test is to give an idea to a self-learning students or to instructors in the case this test is used in a classroom the level of understanding of this topic when students have gone through the learning material, worked exercises and have completed the assignments and the …

ABACUS: Test for PCPBT Lab

05 Aug 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this test is to give an idea to a self-learning students or to instructors in the case this test is used in a classroom the level of understanding of this topic when students have gone through the learning material, worked exercises and have completed the assignments and the …

High Field Transport and the Monte Carlo Method for the Solution of the Boltzmann Transport Equation

23 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

This set of slides first describes the path-integral solution of the BTE and then discusses in details the Monte Carlo Method for the Solution of the Boltzmann Transport Equation.

ACUTE: Hydrodynamic Modeling

23 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

This set of slides clearly explains when and where Hydrodynamic models can be used and what are their limitations.

Quantum Wells, Heterostructures and Superlattices

23 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Stephen M. Goodnick, Dragica Vasileska

this is an overview of the analysis and the application of quantum wells, heterostructures and superlattices.

Explanation of Rode's Iterative Procedure

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): David K. Ferry, Dragica Vasileska

This set of slides describes the Rode's iterative procedure for the mobility calculation when the scattering mechanisms are neither elastic nor isotropic such as is polar optical phonon scattering.

Statistical Mechanics

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, David K. Ferry

This set of slides describes the derivation of Fermi-Dirac, Maxwell-Boltzmann and Bose-Einstein statistics.

Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): David K. Ferry, Dragica Vasileska

This set of slides describes in detail the derivation of Fermi's Golden Rule.

2D Scattering Rates Calculation

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, David K. Ferry

this set of slides describes the calculation of the 2D scattering rates in Q2DEG.

AQME Exercise: Bound States – Theoretical Exercise

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this exercise is to teach the students the theory behind bound states in a quantum well.

ABACUS Exercise: Light Shining on a Semiconductor

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this exercise is to examine the behavior of semiconductors under illumination with light.

SCHRED Exercise: MOS Capacitor Analysis

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this exercise is to examine the influence of semiclassical and quantum-mechanical charge description on the low-frequency CV-curves. It also teaches one the influence of poly-gate depletion on the low-frequency CV-curves.

ABACUS Exercise: Carrier Statistics

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

The objective of this exercise is to derive Bose-Einstein and Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics.

ABACUS Exercise: Bandstructure – Kronig-Penney Model and Tight-Binding Exercise

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this exercise is to start with the simple Kronig-Penney model and understand formations of bands and gaps in the dispersion relation that describes the motion of carriers in 1D periodic potentials. The second exercise examines the behavior of the bands at the Brillouin zone …

ACUTE Exercise: Scattering Rates

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

The objective of this exercise is to examine first the non-elasticity of the acoustic phonon scattering. Then non-parabolicity of intervalley scattering is revisited and finally alloy disorder scattering has to be derived.

ACUTE Exercise: 2D Scattering Rates

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

The objective of this exercise is to calculate 2D scattering rate for polar opti-cal phonon scattering.

ABACUS Exercise: Carriers Distribution vs. Energy

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this problem is to teach the students how the occupancy function changes with temperature, therefore affecting the population of available energy states in the conduction and valence bands.

ABACUS Exercise: Conductivity and Carrier Concentration

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of the first problem is to teach the students how to calculate carrier conductivity in a bulk semiconductor material. The objective of the second problem is to calculate the electron and hole concentrations in a bulk sample for fixed donor and varying acceptor concentration.

ABACUS Exercise: Crystal Lattices and Miler Indices

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of these assignments is to teach the students about crystal lattices and Miler indices for planes and directions.