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ACUTE - Bandstructure Assignment
07 Jul 2011 | Teaching Materials | 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.
http://nanohub.org/resources/11613
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ABACUS: Test for Bandstructure Lab
10 Aug 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
This is a test that examines ones understanding of electronic structure once he/she has gone through the materials and exercises provided on the nanoHUB as part of the ABACUS Bandstructure topic...
http://nanohub.org/resources/9493
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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.
http://nanohub.org/resources/9454
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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...
http://nanohub.org/resources/9372
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Band Structure Lab Exercise
28 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Parijat Sengupta, Dragica Vasileska
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...
http://nanohub.org/resources/9233
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Tight-Binding Band Structure Calculation Method
08 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
This set of slides describes on simple example of a 1D lattice, the basic idea behind the Tight-Binding Method for band structure calculation.
http://nanohub.org/resources/9122
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Band Structure Calculation: General Considerations
17 May 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska
This set of slides explains to the users the concept of valence vs. core electrons, the implications of the adiabatic approximation on the separation of the total Hamiltonian of the system and the...
http://nanohub.org/resources/9003
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Empirical Pseudopotential Method: Theory and Implementation
17 May 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska
This tutorial first teaches the users the basic theory behind the Empirical Pseudopotential (EPM)Bandstructure Calculation method. Next, the implementation details of the method are described and...
http://nanohub.org/resources/8999
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Nanotechnology Animation Gallery
22 Apr 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck
Animations and visualization are generated with various nanoHUB.org tools to enable insight into nanotechnology and nanoscience. Click on image for detailed description and larger image download....
http://nanohub.org/resources/8882
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Illinois ECE 440: Diffusion and Energy Band Diagram Homework
28 Jan 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Mohamed Mohamed
This homework covers Diffusion of Carriers, Built-in Fields and Metal semiconductor junctions.
http://nanohub.org/resources/8264
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CNTbands: First-Time User Guide
15 Jun 2009 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Xufeng Wang, Youngki Yoon
This is a simple guide designed for first-time users of CNTbands. It gives a brief introduction of the tool and a series of tutorials to help users learn the basics of CNTbands.NCN@Purdue
http://nanohub.org/resources/6909
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Band Structure Lab: First-Time User Guide
15 Jun 2009 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Abhijeet Paul, Benjamin P Haley, Gerhard Klimeck
This document provides useful information about Band Structure Lab. First-time users will find basic ideas about the physics behind the tool such as band formation, the Hamiltonian description,...
http://nanohub.org/resources/6935
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ABINIT: First-Time User Guide
09 Jun 2009 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Benjamin P Haley
This first-time user guide provides an introduction to using ABINIT on nanoHUB. We include a very brief summary of Density Functional Theory along with a tour of the Rappture interface. We discuss...
http://nanohub.org/resources/6874
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Periodic Potential Lab: First-Time User Guide
07 Jun 2009 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Abhijeet Paul, Benjamin P Haley, Gerhard Klimeck, SungGeun Kim, Lynn Zentner
This document provides guidance to first-time users of the Periodic Potential Lab tool. It offers basic information about solutions to the Schröedinger Equation in case of periodic potential...
http://nanohub.org/resources/6855
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Computational Electronics HW - Bandstructure Calculation
11 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
www.eas.asu.edu/~vasileskNSF
http://nanohub.org/resources/5033
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Energy Bands as a Function of the Geometry of the n-Well Potential: an Exercise
05 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
Explores the position and the width of the bands as a function of the 10-barrier potential parameters.NSF
http://nanohub.org/resources/4873
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Tutorial on Semi-empirical Band Structure Methods
06 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska
This tutorial explains in details the Empirical Pseudopotential Method for the electronic structure calculation, the tight-binding method and the k.p method. For more details on the Empirical...
http://nanohub.org/resources/4882
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Periodic Potentials and the Kronig-Penney Model
01 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska
This material describes the derivation of the Kronig-Penney model for delta-function periodic potentials.
http://nanohub.org/resources/4847
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Periodic Potentials and Bandstructure: an Exercise
02 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
This exercise teaches the students that in the case of strong coupling between the neighboring wells in square and Coulomb periodic potential wells electrons start to behave as free electrons and...
http://nanohub.org/resources/4851
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Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 19: Band Structure and Some In-Class Simulation: DFT for Solids
30 Apr 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Jeffrey C Grossman, Elif Ertekin
In this class we briefly review band structures and then spend most of our class on in-class simulations. Here we use the DFT for molecules and solids (Siesta) course toolkit. We cover a variety...
http://nanohub.org/resources/4510