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 …

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Computational Nanoscience, Lecture 17: Tight-Binding, and Moving Towards Density Functional Theory

21 Mar 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Elif Ertekin, Jeffrey C Grossman

The purpose of this lecture is to illustrate the application of the Tight-Binding method to a simple system and then to introduce the concept of Density Functional Theory. The motivation to mapping …

https://nanohub.org/resources/4164

OMEN Nanowire Homework Problems

23 Jan 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): SungGeun Kim

OMEN Nanowire homework problems: anyone who has gone through the first-time user guide of OMEN Nanowire and done the examples in the guide should be able to run simulations in these homework …

https://nanohub.org/resources/10512

OMEN Nanowire: solve the challenge

05 Feb 2011 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): SungGeun Kim

This document includes a challenging problems for OMEN Nanowire users. It challenges users to establish a nanowire transistor structure such that it satisfy the ITRS 2010 requirements.

https://nanohub.org/resources/10764

Semiconductor Device Education Material

28 Jan 2008 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck

This page has moved to "a Wiki page format" When we hear the words, semiconductor device, we may think first of the transistors in PCs or video game consoles, but transistors are the basic …

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Tight-Binding Band Structure Calculation Method

02 Jun 2010 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): Dragica Vasileska, Gerhard Klimeck

This set of slides describes on simple example of a 1D lattice, the basic idea behind the Tight-Binding Method for band structure calculation.

https://nanohub.org/resources/9122