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By completing the OMEN Nanowire Lab, users will be able to understand a) the operation of nanowire FETs, b) the effect of bandstructure on the carrier transport in nanowire FETs, and c) the effect of geometry of nanowire on the drain current characteristics in nanowire FETs

The specific objectives of the OMEN Nanowire Lab are:

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== Recommended Reading ==

Users who are new to the concept of nanowire FETs and the simulation methods that are useful for understanding their characteristics should consult the following resources:

 * [/resources/5328 Mark Lundstrom, Nanoscale Transistors(ECE612 2008)] for a basic understanding on MOS transistors.
 * [/resources/4059 Joerg Appenzeller, What Promises do Nanotubes and Nanowires Hold for Future Nanoelectronics Applications?]
 * [/resources/1639 Timothy Sands, Nanotubes and Nanowires: One-dimensional Materials]
 * [/resources/1715 Monica Taba, Investigation of the Electrical Characteristics of Triple-Gate FinFETs and Silicon-Nanowire FETs]
 * Mark Lundstrom and Jing Guo. (2009). ''Nanoscale Transistors: Device Physics, Modeling and Simulation''. New York: Springer. (See especially chapter 5)
 * [/resources/8803 Saumitra R. Mehrotra, et al., Threshold voltage]
 * [/resources/1823 Mark Lundstrom, Subthreshold conduction (ECE612 2006)]

== Demo ==
 * [/resources/6833 OMEN Nanowire: Video Demo]
 * [/resources/6318/ OMEN Nanowire: First Time User Guide]
 * [/resources/6315/ Supporting Document – Limitation of the Tool at Large Gate Voltage]

== Theoretical Descriptions ==
 * [http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1155&context=nanopub Mathieu Luisier, et al., Atomistic simulation of nanowires in the sp3d5s* tight-binding formalism: From boundary conditions to strain calculations, Physical Review B 74, 205323, 2006]
 * [http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/view/eth:29339 Mathieu Luisier, Quantum transport beyond the effective mass approximation, ph.D. thesis, ETH, 2007] 
 * [/resources/1792 Mathieu Luisier, Quantum Transport for Nanostructures]
 * [/resources/9122 Dragica Vasileska, et al., Tight-Binding Bandstructure Calculation Method]

== Tool Verification ==
 * [https://engineering.purdue.edu/gekcogrp/research-group/AbhijeetPaul/project3.php#content Benchmarking Top-of-the-Barrier Model by Abhijeet et al.]

== Examples ==
 * [/resources/6318/ First time user guide slide 15-18]

== Homework ==
 * [/resources/10512 OMEN Nanowire Homework Problems]

== Solutions to Exercises ==
 * Solutions to exercises are provided only to instructors! 

== Evaluation ==
 * [/resources/10515 OMEN Nanowire Test Problems]

== Challenge ==

Users are challenged to integrate what they have learned about OMEN Nanowire Lab in the following module:
 * [/resources/10764 OMEN Nanowire: solve the challenge]