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ABACUS Exercise: Carriers Distribution vs. Energy
20 Jul 2010 | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
The objective of this problem is to teach the students how the occupancy function changes with temperature, therefore affecting the population of available energy states in the conduction and valence bands.
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ABACUS Exercise: Conductivity and Carrier Concentration
20 Jul 2010 | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
The objective of the first problem is to teach the students how to calculate carrier conductivity in a bulk semiconductor material. The objective of the second problem is to calculate the electron and hole concentrations in a bulk sample for fixed donor and varying acceptor concentration.
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ABACUS Exercise: Crystal Lattices and Miler Indices
20 Jul 2010 | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
The objective of these assignments is to teach the students about crystal lattices and Miler indices for planes and directions.
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ABACUS Exercise: Light Shining on a Semiconductor
20 Jul 2010 | Contributor(s):: Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck
The objective of this exercise is to examine the behavior of semiconductors under illumination with light.
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ABACUS MOS Capacitors (Spring 2022)
08 Jun 2022 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In the sixth session, Dr. Gerhard Klimeck will give a brief overview of ABACUS and demonstrate the MOS Capacitor Lab. Students can experiment with the fundamental component of a MOSfet that is any computer chip...
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ABACUS MOS Capacitors (Winter 2021)
31 Jan 2022 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In the sixth session, Dr. Gerhard Klimeck will give a brief overview of ABACUS and demonstrate the MOS Capacitor Lab. Students can experiment with the fundamental component of a MOSfet that is any computer chip...
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ABACUS MOSFETs (Spring 2022)
24 Jun 2022 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In the seventh session, Dr. Gerhard Klimeck will give a brief overview of ABACUS and demonstrate the MOSFET Lab. Students can experiment with the classical scaling of a traditional 2D MOSFET....
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ABACUS MOSFETs (Winter 2021)
08 Feb 2022 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In the seventh session, Dr. Gerhard Klimeck will give a brief overview of ABACUS and demonstrate the MOSFET Lab. Students can experiment with the classical scaling of a traditional 2D MOSFET....
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ABACUS Overview and Crystal Structures (Spring 2022)
04 May 2022 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In the first session, Dr. Klimeck will briefly overview ABACUS and demonstrate the crystal viewer tool. With crystal viewer, students can start with the visualization of a standard Silicon textbook unit cell, then expand the view to a larger crystal and immerse themselves into the various...
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ABACUS Overview and Crystal Structures (Winter 2021)
08 Dec 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In the first session, Dr. Klimeck will briefly overview ABACUS and demonstrate the crystal viewer tool. With crystal viewer, students can start with the visualization of a standard Silicon textbook unit cell, then expand the view to a larger crystal and immerse themselves into the various...
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ABACUS PN Junctions (Spring 2022)
05 May 2022 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In this session, Dr. Gerhard Klimeck will give a brief overview of ABACUS and demonstrate the PN Junction Lab. With the PN Junction Lab, students can explore band edge diagrams and charge distributions as a function of bias...
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ABACUS PN Junctions (Winter 2021)
13 Dec 2021 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In this session, Dr. Gerhard Klimeck will give a brief overview of ABACUS and demonstrate the PN Junction Lab. With the PN Junction Lab, students can explore band edge diagrams and charge distributions as a function of bias...
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ABACUS Tool Suite (Fall 2023)
19 Oct 2023 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
The objective of the recitation series is to enable faculty to enhance existing or new semiconductor classes with interactive simulations.
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ABACUS Tool Suite and Bandstructure and Band Models (Fall 2023)
22 Aug 2023 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In the third session, Dr. Klimeck will give a brief overview of ABACUS and demonstrate several bandstructure tools. With these, students can explore the Standard Periodic Potential aka Kronig-Penney model as well as bandstructure formation by transmission through finite barriers....
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ABACUS Tool Suite and Bipolar Junction Transistors (Fall 2023)
18 Oct 2023 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In the fifth session, Dr. Klimeck will give a brief overview of ABACUS and demonstrate the Bipolar-Junction-Transistor-Lab. Students can experiment with npn and pnp BJTs in ideal textbook 1D geometries as well as realistic 2D geometries.
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ABACUS Tool Suite and Bulk Semiconductors (Fall 2023)
01 Sep 2023 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In the third session, Dr. Klimeck will give a brief overview of ABACUS and demonstrate the Drift-Diffusion-Lab. Students can experiment with a semiconductor slab under bias and/or light illumination....
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ABACUS Tool Suite and MOS Capacitors (Fall 2023)
19 Oct 2023 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In the sixth session, Dr. Klimeck will give a brief overview of ABACUS and demonstrate the MOS Capacitor Lab. Students can experiment with the fundamental component of a MOSfet that is any computer chip
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ABACUS Tool Suite and MOSFETs (Fall 2023)
19 Oct 2023 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In the seventh session, Dr. Klimeck will give a brief overview of ABACUS and demonstrate the MOSFET Lab. Students can experiment with the classical scaling of a traditional 2D MOSFET.
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ABACUS Tool Suite and PN Junctions (Fall 2023)
18 Oct 2023 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
Dr. Klimeck will give a brief overview of ABACUS and demonstrate the PN Junction Lab. With the PN Junction Lab, students can explore band edge diagrams and charge distributions as a function of bias.
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ABACUS Tool Suite Overview and Crystal Structures (Fall 2023)
15 Aug 2023 | | Contributor(s):: Gerhard Klimeck
In the first recitation session, Dr. Klimeck will briefly discuss a new initiative, Chipshub.org, then move into an overview of ABACUS and demonstrate the Crystal Viewer Tool. This tool allows students to start with the visualization of a standard silicon text book unit cell, then expand the...