Quantum Wells, Heterostructures and Superlattices

23 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Stephen M. Goodnick, Dragica Vasileska

this is an overview of the analysis and the application of quantum wells, heterostructures and superlattices.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9410

Explanation of Rode's Iterative Procedure

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): David K. Ferry, Dragica Vasileska

This set of slides describes the Rode's iterative procedure for the mobility calculation when the scattering mechanisms are neither elastic nor isotropic such as is polar optical phonon scattering.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9379

Statistical Mechanics

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, David K. Ferry

This set of slides describes the derivation of Fermi-Dirac, Maxwell-Boltzmann and Bose-Einstein statistics.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9381

Time-Dependent Perturbation Theory

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): David K. Ferry, Dragica Vasileska

This set of slides describes in detail the derivation of Fermi's Golden Rule.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9387

2D Scattering Rates Calculation

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, David K. Ferry

this set of slides describes the calculation of the 2D scattering rates in Q2DEG.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9389

AQME Exercise: Bound States – Theoretical Exercise

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this exercise is to teach the students the theory behind bound states in a quantum well.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9364

ABACUS Exercise: Light Shining on a Semiconductor

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this exercise is to examine the behavior of semiconductors under illumination with light.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9366

SCHRED Exercise: MOS Capacitor Analysis

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

The objective of this exercise is to examine the influence of semiclassical and quantum-mechanical charge description on the low-frequency CV-curves. It also teaches one the influence of poly-gate …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9368

ABACUS Exercise: Carrier Statistics

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

The objective of this exercise is to derive Bose-Einstein and Maxwell-Boltzmann statistics.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9370

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

ACUTE Exercise: Scattering Rates

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

The objective of this exercise is to examine first the non-elasticity of the acoustic phonon scattering. Then non-parabolicity of intervalley scattering is revisited and finally alloy disorder …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9374

ACUTE Exercise: 2D Scattering Rates

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

The objective of this exercise is to calculate 2D scattering rate for polar opti-cal phonon scattering.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9376

ABACUS Exercise: Carriers Distribution vs. Energy

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9356

ABACUS Exercise: Conductivity and Carrier Concentration

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | 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 …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9359

ABACUS Exercise: Crystal Lattices and Miler Indices

20 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | 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.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9361

Atomistic Simulations of Reliability

06 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

Discrete impurity effects in terms of their statistical variations in number and position in the inversion and depletion region of a MOSFET, as the gate length is aggressively scaled, have recently …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9253

Rode's Method: Theory and Implementation

06 Jul 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska

This set of teaching materials provides theoretical description of the Rode's method for the low field mobility calculation that is accompanied with a MATLAB code for the low field mobility …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9249

Analytical and Numerical Solution of the Double Barrier Problem

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

Tunneling is fully quantum-mechanical effect that does not have classical analog. Tunneling has revolutionized surface science by its utilization in scanning tunneling microscopes. In some device …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9231

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 diodes, …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9233

Crystal Viewer Lab Exercise

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

A central problem in the investigation of material properties involves the examination of the underlying blocks that aggregate to form macroscopic bodies. These underlying blocs own a definite …

https://nanohub.org/resources/9236