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IWCE 2015: Openning Remarks
10 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
IWCE 2015 presentation. Welcome and opening remarks for the 18th International Workshop on Computational Electronics.
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Indiana: A State that Works - An Overview of Public-Private Partnerships related to Nanoelectronics, Materials, Energy Storage, and Manufacturing
10 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Ian Steff
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Multiscale Modeling of Graphene-Metal Contacts
01 Feb 2016 | | Contributor(s):: T. Cusati, Gianluca Fiori, A. Fortunelli, Giuseppe Iannaccone
IWCE 2015 presentation. The quality of contacts between metals and two- dimensional materials is a critical aspect for the performance of transistors based on two-dimensional materials. In this talk we focus on an approach to multiscale modeling of graphene- metal contacts, considering both...
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Thermal Conductivity of III-V Semiconductor Superlattices
25 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Song Mei, Zlatan Aksamija, Irena Knezevic
IWCE 2015 presentation. An InGaAs/InAlAs superlattice (SL) on an InP substrate is the mainstream material system for mid- IR quantum cascade lasers (QCL). The thermal conductivity tensor of SLs is critical for energy-efficient performance of QCLs; understanding the relative importance of...
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Study of the Interface Roughness Models using 3D Finite Element Schrödinger Equation Corrected Monte Carlo Simulator on Nanoscaled FinFET
25 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Daniel Nagy, Muhammad Ali A. Elmessary, Manuel Aldegunde, Karol Kalna
IWCE 2015 presentation. Interface roughness scattering (IRS) is one of the key limiting scattering mechanism for both planar and non-planar CMOS devices. To predict the performance of future scaled devices and new structures the quantum mechanical confinement based IRS models are...
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Calculation of phonon transmission in Si/PtSi heterostructures
25 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Jung Hyun Oh, Mincheol Shin
In this work we examine the suppression of phonon transport in another example, Si and SiPt heterostructures (3D). This heterostrucure is believed to have the benefit that the electrical conductance can be kept high while the phonon propagation is suppressed due to the large acoustic impedance...
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Variational Formulation of Stable Discrete k · p Models
25 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: William R Frensley
IWCE 2015 presentation. the longstanding problem of spurious states in k·: ; p models of semiconductor nanostructures has been shown to be an artifact of the use of the centereddifference approximation to the gradient, and it has been shown that stable models may be constructed on...
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nanoHUB - Educational Tour de Force
14 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: David K. Ferry
nanoHUB was originally created to bring together the computational electronics world as a place where programs and results could be efficiently shared. For that purpose, it has matured and grown to where it is a major force in the area. But, it can also be a great tool for education, an...
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Screening Effect on Electric Field Produced by Spontaneous Polarization in ZnO Quantum Dot in Electrolyte
05 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Xinia Meshik, Min S. Choi, Mitra Dutta, Michael Stroscio
IWCE 2015 presentation. in this paper, the calculation of the strength of the electrostatic field produced by zno quantum dots due to the spontaneous polarization in a physiological electrolyte and its application on retinal horizontal cells are presented.
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Anisotropic Schrödinger Equation Quantum Corrections for 3D Monte Carlo Simulations of Nanoscale Multigate Transistors
05 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Karol Kalna, Muhammad Ali A. Elmessary, Daniel Nagy, Manuel Aldegunde
IWCE 2015 presentation. We incorporated anisotropic 2D Schrodinger equation based quantum corrections (SEQC) that depends on valley orientation into a 3D Finite Element (FE) Monte Carlo (MC) simulation toolbox. The MC toolbox was tested against experimental ID-VG characteristics of the 22 nm...
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Quick Review of Semiconductor Fundamentals
05 Jan 2016 | | Contributor(s):: Mark Lundstrom
This lecture quickly summarizes some important semiconductor fundamentals. For those acquainted with semiconductors, it may be useful as a brief refresher. For those just getting started with semiconductors, my hope is that this lecture provides just enough understanding to allow you to begin...
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Thermionic Escape in Quantum Well Solar Cell
18 Dec 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Nicolas Cavassilas, Fabienne Michelini, Marc Bescond
This theoretical work analyzes the photogeneration and the escape of carrier in InGaN/GaN core-shell nanowires. Our electronic transport model considers quantum behaviors such as confinement, tunneling, electron-phonon scattering and electron-photon interactions. The large lattice mismatch...
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nanoHUB-U Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics B: Quantum Transport: Scientific Overview
11 Dec 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta
This video is the Scientific Overview for the nanoHUB-U course "Fundamentals of Nanoelectronics Part B: Quantum Transport" by Supriyo Datta.
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Lessons From Nanoelectronics
10 Dec 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Supriyo Datta
This talk is about a less-appreciated by-product of the microelectronics revolution, namely the deeper understanding of current flow, energy exchange and device operation that it has enabled, which forms the basis for what we call the bottom-up approach.
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A Tutorial Introduction to Negative-Capacitor Landau Transistors: Perspectives on the Road Ahead
04 Dec 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Muhammad A. Alam
In this talk, I use a simple graphical approach to demystify the device and explain why the experimental results are easy to misinterpret. Since the NC-FET is just a special case of a much broader class of phase-change devices and systems (e.g., transistors, memories, MEMS, logic-in-memory...
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GaN/InGaN/GaN Disk-in-Wire Light Emitters: Polar vs. Nonpolar Orientations
25 Nov 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Rezaul Karim Nishat, S. Alqahtani, Ye Wu, Vinay Uday Chimalgi, Shaikh S. Ahmed
IWCE 2015 presentation. in this paper, we computationally evaluate and compare the performance of recently reported in0.75n/gan disk-in-wire light emitting diodes (led) grown in the polar (c-plane) and nonpolar (m-plane) crystallographic orientations in terms of built-in fields, electronic...
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Phonon Interactions in Single-Dopant-Based Transistors: Temperature and Size Dependence
25 Nov 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Marc Bescond, Nicolas Cavassilas, Salim Berrada
IWCE 2015 presentation. in this work we investigate the dependence of electron-phonon scattering in single dopant-based nanowire transistor with respect to temperature and dimensions. we use a 3d real-space non-equilibrium green': ; s function (negf) approach where electron-phonon...
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Time-Resolved Computational Method for Atomistic Open System Simulations
13 Nov 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Bozidar Novakovic, Gerhard Klimeck
IWCE 2015 presentation. Abstract and more information to be added at a later date.
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Mode Space Tight Binding Model for Ultra-Fast Simulations of III-V Nanowire MOSFETs and Heterojunction TFETs
13 Nov 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Aryan Afzalian, Jun Huang, Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh, Santiago Alonso Perez Rubiano, Tillmann Christoph Kubis, Michael Povolotskyi, Gerhard Klimeck
IWCE 2015 presentation. we explore here the suitability of a mode space tight binding algorithm to various iii-v homo- and heterojunction nanowire devices. we show that in iii-v materials, the number of unphysical modes to eliminate is very high compared to the si case previously reported...
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Simulation of Organic Solar Cell with Graphene Transparent Electrode
13 Nov 2015 | | Contributor(s):: Paolo Paletti, giacomo ulisse, Giuseppe Iannaccone, Gianluca Fiori
IWCE 2015 presentation. We present a simulation study of the performance of organic solar cell (OSC) exploiting graphene as transparent electrode. The approach is based on a multi-scale/multi-physics simulation framework, which is able to provide relevant information regarding the design...