2010 NCN@Purdue Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up

18 Jan 2011 | Workshops

Electronics from the Bottom Up seeks to bring a new perspective to electronic devices – one that is designed to help realize the opportunities that nanotechnology presents.

https://nanohub.org/resources/8878

Additional Tutorials on Selected Topics in Nanotechnology

29 Mar 2011 | Workshops | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck, Umesh V. Waghmare, Timothy S Fisher, N. S. Vidhyadhiraja

Select tutorials in nanotechnology, a part of the 2010 NCN@Purdue Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up.

https://nanohub.org/resources/11041

Nanoelectronic Modeling Lecture 23: NEMO1D - Importance of New Boundary Conditions

09 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

One of the key insights gained during the NEMO1D project was the development of new boundary conditions that enabled the modeling of realistically extended Resonant Tunneling Diodes (RTDs). The new …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8592

Nanoelectronic Modeling Lecture 24: NEMO1D - Incoherent Scattering

09 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Incoherent processes due to phonons, interface roughness and disorder had been suspected to be the primary source of the valley current of resonant tunneling diodes (RTDs) at the beginning of the …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8593

Nanoelectronic Modeling Lecture 25a: NEMO1D - Full Bandstructure Effects

07 Jul 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

(quantitative RTD modeling at room temperature)

https://nanohub.org/resources/8594

Nanoelectronic Modeling Lecture 25b: NEMO1D - Hole Bandstructure in Quantum Wells and Hole Transport in RTDs

09 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Heterostructures such as resonant tunneling diodes, quantum well photodetectors and lasers, and cascade lasers break the symmetry of the crystalline lattice. Such break in lattice symmetry causes a …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8595

Nanoelectronic Modeling Lecture 26: NEMO1D -

09 Mar 2010 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

NEMO1D demonstrated the first industrial strength implementation of NEGF into a simulator that quantitatively simulated resonant tunneling diodes. The development of efficient algorithms that …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8596

Resonant Tunneling Diode operation

22 Apr 2010 | Animations | Contributor(s): Saumitra Raj Mehrotra, Gerhard Klimeck

A resonant tunneling diode (RTD) is a type of diode with a resonant tunneling structure that allows electrons to tunnel through various resonant states at certain energy levels. RTDs can be …

https://nanohub.org/resources/8799

Tutorial 4: Far-From-Equilibrium Quantum Transport

29 Mar 2011 | Courses | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

These lectures focus on the application of the theories using the nanoelectronic modeling tools NEMO 1- D, NEMO 3-D, and OMEN to realistically extended devices. Topics to be covered are realistic …

https://nanohub.org/resources/11042

Tutorial 4a: High Bias Quantum Transport in Resonant Tunneling Diodes

29 Mar 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Outline: Resonant Tunneling Diodes - NEMO1D: Motivation / History / Key Insights Open 1D Systems: Transmission through Double Barrier Structures - Resonant Tunneling Introduction to RTDs: Linear …

https://nanohub.org/resources/11043

Tutorial 4c: Formation of Bandstructure in Finite Superlattices (Exercise Session)

29 Mar 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

How does bandstructure occur? How large does a repeated system have to be? How does a finite superlattice compare to an infinite superlattice?

https://nanohub.org/resources/11051

Tutorial 4d: Formation of Bandstructure in Finite Superlattices (Exercise Demo)

29 Mar 2011 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

Demonstration of the Piece-Wise Constant Potential Barriers Tool.

https://nanohub.org/resources/11052