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ABACUS Tool Suite Overview and Crystal Structures (Fall 2023)
15 Aug 2023 | Online Presentations | 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...
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ABACUS Tool Suite and Bandstructure and Band Models (Fall 2023)
22 Aug 2023 | Online Presentations | 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 Bulk Semiconductors (Fall 2023)
01 Sep 2023 | Online Presentations | 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 PN Junctions (Fall 2023)
18 Oct 2023 | Online Presentations | 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 and Bipolar Junction Transistors (Fall 2023)
18 Oct 2023 | Online Presentations | 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 Overview and Crystal Structures (Spring 2022)
04 May 2022 | Online Presentations | 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 Bandstructure Models (Spring 2022)
05 May 2022 | Online Presentations | 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 PN Junctions (Spring 2022)
05 May 2022 | Online Presentations | 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 Drift-Diffusion-Lab with Bias and Light (Spring 2022)
05 May 2022 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck
In the fourth 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 Bipolar Junction Transistors (Spring 2022)
08 Jun 2022 | Online Presentations | 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 MOS Capacitors (Spring 2022)
08 Jun 2022 | Online Presentations | 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 | Online Presentations | 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 (Winter 2021)
08 Dec 2021 | Online Presentations | 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 Bandstructure Models (Winter 2021)
21 Dec 2021 | Online Presentations | 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 PN Junctions (Winter 2021)
13 Dec 2021 | Online Presentations | 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 Drift-Diffusion-Lab with Bias and Light (Winter 2021)
19 Jan 2022 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gerhard Klimeck
In the fourth 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 Bipolar Junction Transistors (Winter 2021)
25 Jan 2022 | Online Presentations | 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. Different experiments with variations in doping profiles,...
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ABACUS MOS Capacitors (Winter 2021)
31 Jan 2022 | Online Presentations | 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 (Winter 2021)
08 Feb 2022 | Online Presentations | 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....
Recent economic needs have re-kindled national and global interest in semiconductor devices and created an urgent need for more semiconductor device engineers and architects. Current students will need to be trained in the fundamentals of semiconductor devices to meet this growing semiconductor demand. Dr. Klimeck will introduce the tools found in the ABACUS tool suite in nanoHUB. He developed these tools to teach his standard semiconductor device class at Purdue University. These tools include simulations of crystal structures and lattices, bandstructure and band models, bulk semiconductors, PN Junctions, Bipolar Junction Transistors, MOS Capacitors, and MOSFETs. The popular ABACUS tool suite has been used by over 15,000 users and in over 350 classes globally. The ABACUS group page highlights various features and animations.
Dr. Gerhard Klimeck is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University; Director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology; Reilly Director of the Center for Predictive Materials and Devices. He helped to create nanoHUB.org, the largest virtual nanotechnology user facility serving over 2.0 million global users, annually. Dr. Klimeck is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the German Humboldt Foundation. He has published over 525 printed scientific articles; he has been recognized for his co-invention of a single-atom transistor, quantum mechanical modeling theory, and simulation tools. His NEMO5 software has been used since 2015 at Intel to design nano-scaled transistors. He was a winner of a 2020 R&D 100 Award for his nanoHUB work: Making Data and Simulations Pervasive.