This supporting document for the Piece-Wise Constant Potential Barriers Tool serves as a first-time user guide. Some basic ideas about quantum mechanical tunneling are introduced in addition to how device geometry influences tunneling probability. The transfer matrix and tight-binding formulations are also compared.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Samarth Agarwal; Gerhard Klimeck (2009), "Piece-Wise Constant Potential Barriers Tool: First-Time User Guide," http://nanohub.org/resources/6794.

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1. devices
2. First Time User Guide
3. nanoelectronics
4. tool:abacus
5. tool:aqme
6. tool:pcpbt