ACUTE - Assembly for Computational Electronics
The purpose of the ACUTE tool-based curriculum is to introduce interested scientists from academia and industry to the advanced methods of simulation needed for the proper modeling of state-of-the-art nanoscale devices. The multiple scale transport in doped semiconductors is summarized in the figure below, in terms of the transport regimes, relative importance of the scattering mechanisms, and possible applications.
After the study and utilization of the semiclassical simulation tools and their applications, the next step includes quantum corrections into the classical simulators. The final set of tools is dedicated to the far-from equilibrium transport, where the concept of pure and mixed states and the distribution function is introduced. Several tools that utilize different methods will be used for that purpose, such as tools that use the recursive Green’s-function method and its variant, the Usuki method, as well as the Contact Block Reduction tool, as the most efficient and complete way of solving the quantum-transport problem because this method allows users to simultaneously calculate source-drain current and gate leakage (which is not the case, for example, with the Usuki and the recursive Green’s function techniques that are in fact quasi one-dimensional in nature for transport through a device). A table that shows the advantages and the limitation of various semi-classical and quantum-transport simulation tools is presented below.
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