EEE598: Advanced Device Simulation
Dragica Vasileska
Review of semiconductor physics and transport
o Semiconductor physics – basic concepts o Review of drift-diffusion model - Equilibrium Poisson Equation Solver The BTE and its solution o Introduction of the BTE, Derivation of the Fermi’s Golden Rule, Scattering mechanisms description - Assignment 2 – Scattering rates calculation for GaN o Low-field transport: Relaxation Time Approximation and and Rode’s Iterative Method - Assignment 3 – Implementation of the Rode’s Method for GaN o Notes on the Implementation of the Monte Carlo method for GaAs - Assignment 4 – Scattering Table Construction - Due March 18th - Assignment 5 – Bulk Solving the Poisson and the Maxwell’s equations o Efficient Poisson Equation Solvers: Multigrid Method and the Conjugate Gradient Methods (article on conjugate gradient methods) - Assignment 6 – Equilibrium Poisson Solver for GaN MESFET or HEMT o Why Maxwell Solvers?, Complete Frank Schwierz presentation o Solution of the Maxwell Equations using FDTD: part1, part2, part3 and part4; Transmission Lines and Waveguides, Basic FDTD Particle-Based device simulator o Pauli Exclusion Principle, Carrier-Carrier Interactions and Molecular Dynamics o Modeling of Coulomb effects in conjunction with particle-based device simulators o Modeling of Thermal Effects with Particle-based device simulators o Examples of particle-based device modeling: - Quantum and Coulomb Effects in Nanoscale Devices (Shaikh Shahid Ahmed – Assistant Professor, - Modeling p-channel SiGe Devices – Full Band Simulations (Santhosh Krishnan – Micron) - Xiaojiang He Thesis: Modeling 50 nm MOSFET devices - Assignment 7 – Particle-based device simulator for modeling GaN MESFETs or HEMT Quantum Corrections to Semiclassical Approaches o Density Gradient Method ( o Quantum Corrected Hydrodynamics (Ferry, Grubin) o Effective potential approach used in conjunction with particle-based device simulators (Ferry, Ringhofer, Vasileska) Quantum Simulation – Band Structure o Schrodinger Equation, Quantum Mechanics Revisited - Stationary States for a Free Particle - Bulk dispersion, Periodic Potentials o Realistic Semiconductor Bandstructure Models: Book Review by Dragica Vasileska on Semiempirical Band Structure Methods - Empirical Pseudopotential Method, Salvador Gonzalez Thesis (Intel) - k.p Method Description, MRS Presentation - Assignment 8 - Implementation of the Empirical Pseudopotential Method Quantum Transport in a single band – Non-interacting Systems o Tunneling Theory – Continuum Semi-Analytical Method - Current expression - Landauer’s Approach o Tunneling Theory – Discretized Numerical Method - Transfer Matrix Approach - QTBM method - Usuki Method – guest lecturer Richard Akis Non-Equilibrium Transport - Second Quantization of Particles - Single particle and two-particle operators - Schrodinger, Heisenberg and Interaction representation - Wicks Theorem - Feynman Diagrams and the partial summation method for the self energy - Dyson Equation - Definition of the six Green’s functions o Ballistic approaches for solving the Green’s Function problem in devices – guest Lecturer Denis Mamaluy A. Recursive Green’s function Approach B. Contact Block Reduction method o Example: Simulation of FINFETs (Hasanur Rahman Khan PhD Thesis) Assignments:
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