ABACUS - Assembly of Basic Applications for Coordinated Understanding of Semiconductors

16 Jul 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Xufeng Wang, Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

One-stop-shop for teaching semiconductor device education

https://nanohub.org/resources/abacus

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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9372

Comparison of PCPBT Lab and Periodic Potential Lab

04 Aug 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Abhijeet Paul, Samarth Agarwal, Gerhard Klimeck, Junzhe Geng

This small presentation provides information about the comparison performed for quantum wells made of GaAs and InAs in two different tools. This has been done to benchmark the results from completely …

https://nanohub.org/resources/7201

ME 597 Lecture 2: Electron States in Solids-Density of States

09 Sep 2009 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Ron Reifenberger

Note: This lecture has been revised since its original presentation. Topics: Electron States in Solids – Bloch Functions Kronig-Penney Model Density of States

https://nanohub.org/resources/7343

Nanoelectronic Modeling Lecture 14: Open 1D Systems - Formation of Bandstructure

25 Jan 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Dragica Vasileska

The infinite periodic structure Kroenig Penney model is often used to introduce students to the concept of bandstructure formation. It is analytically solvable for linear potentials and shows …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8197

Periodic Potential Lab

19 Jan 2008 | Tools | Contributor(s): Abhijeet Paul, Junzhe Geng, Gerhard Klimeck

Solve the time independent schrodinger eqn. for arbitrary periodic potentials

https://nanohub.org/resources/kronig_penney

Periodic Potential Lab Demonstration: Standard Kroenig-Penney Model

03 Jun 2009 | Animations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Benjamin P Haley

This video shows the simulation of a 1D square well using the Periodic Potential Lab. The calculated output includes plots of the allowed energybands, a table of the band edges and band gaps, plots …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6839

Periodic Potential Lab Worked Examples

09 Apr 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): SungGeun Kim, Abhijeet Paul, Gerhard Klimeck, Lynn Zentner, Benjamin P Haley

Worked Examples for Periodic Potential Lab

https://nanohub.org/resources/11125

Periodic Potential Lab: First-Time User Guide

05 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 in …

https://nanohub.org/resources/6855

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.

https://nanohub.org/resources/4847

Periodic Potentials Exercise

15 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Parijat Sengupta, Dragica Vasileska

In this exercise, various calculations of the electronic band structure of a one-dimensional crystal are performed with the Kronig-Penney (KP) model. This model has an analytical solution and …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9195

Semiconductor Device Education Material

28 Jan 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

This page has moved to "a Wiki page format" When we hear the words, semiconductor device, we may think first of the transistors in PCs or video game consoles, but transistors are the basic …

https://nanohub.org/resources/edu_semi

Slides: Kronig-Penney Model Explained

08 Jul 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

www.eas.asu.edu/~vasileskNSF

https://nanohub.org/resources/4959