Nanotechnology has received a lot of public attention since U.S. President Clinton announced the U.S.
National Nanotechnology Initiative. New approaches to applications in electronics, materials,
medicine, biology and a variety of other areas will be developed in this new multi-disciplinary field.
Notably, nanotechnology has already arrived in practical devices in the world of semiconductor
electronics. Wave-like properties of electrons modify the functional device behavior once spatial
variations in structures reach length scales of a few tens of nanometers. The modeling and simulation
of such devices now deviates strongly from classical approaches: it must be fundamentally quantum
mechanical. While standard technologies require extensive simulation tools for design, analysis and
characterization, few such tools exist for nanoelectronic devices. This seminar will review the
development of a comprehensive nanoelectronic modeling tool (NEMO), its algorithm and theory
development, its utilization of low cost clusters for high performance computing, and its application to
high-speed electronics. Device synthesis from performance specifications and device characterization
via genetic algorithms will be demonstrated. This work has been performed with a large number of
people in the NEMO development process. Key contributors were: Roger Lake, R. Chris Bowen, Bill
Frensley, Tim Boykin, and Dan Blanks.

NCN@Purdue Student Leadership Team
Network for Computational Nanotechnology
The Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Gerhard Klimeck (2004), "NEMO 1-D: The First NEGF-based TCAD Tool and Network for Computational Nanotechnology," http://nanohub.org/resources/178.

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2. devices 1
3. nanoelectronics 1
4. NEGF 1
5. tutorial 1
6. visualization 1