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ACUTE

ACUTE is a tool-based curricula designed to introduce interested scientists from Academia and Industry in advanced simulation methods needed for proper modeling of state-of-the-art nanoscale devices.

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  1. A Primer on Semiconductor Device Simulation

    23 Jan 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom

    Computer simulation is now an essential tool for the research and development of semiconductor processes and devices, but to use a simulation tool intelligently, one must know what's "under the hood." This talk is a tutorial introduction designed for someone using semiconductor...

  2. ACUTE

    17 Aug 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck, Xufeng Wang, Stephen M. Goodnick

    This tool is used for the Advanced Computational Electronics Tool Based Curricula

  3. ACUTE - Bandstructure Assignment

    07 Jul 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

    This is assignment that is part of the ACUTE tool-based curricula that guides the students step by step how to implement an empirical pseudopotential method for the bandstructure calculation.

  4. ACUTE - PN Diode Modeling

    07 Jul 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

    In this assignment, starting from an equilibrium Poisson equation solver for pn-diode, students are required to develop a complete 1D drift-diffusion simulator using the lecture materials provided as part of the ACUTE tool-based curricula.

  5. ACUTE - Process Simulation Assignment

    28 Jul 2011 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

    This assignment teaches the students the ion implantation process.

  6. ACUTE—Assembly for Computational Electronics

    This nanoHUB “topic page” provides an easy access to selected nanoHUB educational material on computational electronics that is openly accessible. We invite users to participate in...

    https://nanohub.org/wiki/ACUTE2

  7. BJT - Simulation Exercise

    03 Aug 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

    This simulation exercise teaches the students the operation of BJT transistor, what is current gain and how one extracts current gain from the Gummel plot. It also provides output device characteristics from which students have to extract the Early voltage. Furthermore, it makes the students...

  8. BJT Lab

    06 Feb 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Abhijeet Paul, Gerhard Klimeck, Dragica Vasileska, Gloria Wahyu Budiman

    This tool simulates a Bipolar Junction Transistor (BJT) using a 2D mesh. Powered by PADRE.

  9. BJT Problems and PADRE Exercise

    11 Jul 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

    This set of problems makes the students familiar with h-parameters and they also teach them how to write the input deck for simulation of BJT device to obtain the Gummel plot, the output characteristics and to extract the h-parameters. Also here, students are taught how to treat current contacts...

  10. Bulk Band Structure: a Simulation Exercise

    03 Aug 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

    This simulation exercise teaches the students about band structure of indirect and direct bandgap materials, the optical gaps, the concept of the effective mass and the influence of spin-orbit coupling on the valence bandstructure. NSF

  11. Bulk Monte Carlo Code Described

    01 Jul 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska

    In this tutorial we give implementation details for the bulk Monte Carlo code for calculating the electron drift velocity, velocity-field characteristics and average carrier energy in bulk GaAs materials. Identical concepts with minor details apply to the development of a bulk Monte Carlo code...

  12. Bulk Monte Carlo Lab:Scattering Rates for Parabolic vs. Non-Parabolic Bands: an Exercise

    20 Aug 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

    This exercise helps the students learn the importance of the non-parabolic band approximation for large carrier energies.

  13. Can we define unique effective masses in Si nanowires?

    06 Jul 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

    This exercise teaches the users that for small nanostructures the concept of the effective mass becomes vague and in order to properly describe nanostructures one has to take into account the numerically calculated dispersion relation. This is clearly illustrated on the example of Si nanowires...

  14. Choice of the Distribution Function

    02 Jun 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska

    Solid-State Theory and Semiconductor Transport Fundamentals

  15. Computational Electronics

    02 Jun 2006 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska

    Scaling of CMOS devices into the nanometer regime leads to increased processing cost. In this regard, the field of Computational Electronics is becoming more and more important because device simulation offers unique possibility to test hypothetical devices which have not been fabricated yet...

  16. Computational Electronics

    07 Jul 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck, Stephen M. Goodnick

    As semiconductor feature sizes shrink into the nanometer scale regime, device behavior becomes increasingly complicated as new physical phenomena at short dimensions occur, and limitations in material properties are reached. In addition to the problems related to the actual operation of...

  17. Computational Electronics HW - Simplified Band Structure Model

    11 Jul 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

    www.eas.asu.edu/~vasileskNSF

  18. Computational Electronics HW - Bandstructure Calculation

    11 Jul 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

    www.eas.asu.edu/~vasileskNSF

  19. Computational Electronics HW - DOS and Fermi Golden Rule

    11 Jul 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

    www.eas.asu.edu/~vasileskNSF

  20. Computational Electronics HW - Drift-Diffusion Equations

    11 Jul 2008 | | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

    www.eas.asu.edu/~vasileskNSF