Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET-Part I: Basics

20 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yang Liu, Robert Dutton

Part I covers the basics of PROPHET, including the set-up of simulation structures and parameters based on pre-defined PDE systems.

https://nanohub.org/resources/974

Nano-Scale Device Simulations Using PROPHET

20 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Yang Liu, Robert Dutton

These two lectures are aimed to give a practical guide to the use of a general device simulator (PROPHET) available on nanoHUB. PROPHET is a partial differential equation (PDE) solver that offers …

https://nanohub.org/resources/973

Hierarchical Physical Models for Analysis of Electrostatic Nanoelectromechanical Systems (NEMS)

05 Jan 2006 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Narayan Aluru

This talk will introduce hierarchical physical models and efficient computational techniques for coupled analysis of electrical, mechanical and van der Waals energy domains encountered in …

https://nanohub.org/resources/850

First Principles-based Atomistic and Mesoscale Modeling of Materials

01 Dec 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Alejandro Strachan

This tutorial will describe some of the most powerful and widely used techniques for materials modeling including i) first principles quantum mechanics (QM), ii) large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) …

https://nanohub.org/resources/434

Bandstructure in Nanoelectronics

01 Nov 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

This presentation will highlight, for nanoelectronic device examples, how the effective mass approximation breaks down and why the quantum mechanical nature of the atomically resolved material needs …

https://nanohub.org/resources/381

On the Reliability of Micro-Electronic Devices: An Introductory Lecture on Negative Bias Temperature Instability

28 Sep 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Muhammad A. Alam

In 1930s Bell Labs scientists chose to focus on Siand Ge, rather than better known semiconductors like Ag2S and Cu2S, mostly because of their reliable performance. Their choice was rewarded with the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/193

Modeling and Simulation of Sub-Micron Thermal Transport

26 Sep 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Jayathi Murthy

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in understanding thermal phenomena at the sub-micron scale. Applications include the thermal performance of microelectronic devices, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/192

Parallel Computing for Realistic Nanoelectronic Simulations

12 Sep 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Typical modeling and simulation efforts directed towards the understanding of electron transport at the nanometer scale utilize single workstations as computational engines. Growing understanding of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/191

Numerical Aspects of NEGF: The Recursive Green Function Algorithm

14 Jun 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Numerical Aspects of NEGF: The Recursive Green Function Algorithm

https://nanohub.org/resources/165

HPC and Visualization for multimillion atom simulations

21 Jun 2005 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

This presentation gives an overview of the HPC and visulaization efforts involving multi-million atom simulations for the June 2005 NSF site visit to the Network for Computational Nanotechnology.

https://nanohub.org/resources/187

NanoMOS 2.5 Source Code Download

22 Feb 2005 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Zhibin Ren, Sebastien Goasguen

NanoMOS is a 2-D simulator for thin body (less than 5 nm), fully depleted, double-gated n-MOSFETs. A choice of five transport models is available (drift-diffusion, classical ballistic, energy …

https://nanohub.org/resources/110

Multiscale Modeling of the Mechanical Behavior of Polymer-Based Nanocomposites

25 Mar 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Catalin Picu

Polymers filled with nanoscale fillers (carbon nanotubes or nanoparticles) exhibit enhanced properties compared with the neat polymer and with the polymer filled with micron-sized fillers at same …

https://nanohub.org/resources/158

Quantum Electromechanical Systems: Are we there yet?

05 Feb 2004 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Andrew Cleland

Electrons moving in a conductor can transfer momentum to the lattice via collisions with impurities and boundaries, giving rise to a fluctuating mechanical stress tensor. Driving electrons out of …

https://nanohub.org/resources/151