Summer School on Computational Materials Science
2002
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Quantum Corrections in Monte Carlo Device Simulation

Umberto Ravaioli - ravaioli@uiuc.edu

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computational Science and Engineering Program, Beckman Institute, and NCSA

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Outline of Lecture

  1. Quantum Corrections
    1. Motivation for quantum corrections
    2. Effective Potential approach
    3. Wigner function approach
    4. Schroedinger equation-based correction
    5. Comparisons
  2. Applications
    1. Concept of "transverse temperature" for Schroedinger correction
    2. Examples of nanoscale MOSFET simulation

Background Articles

1.

"Comparison of Quantum Corrections for Monte Carlo Simulation", B. Winstead, H. Tsuchiya, and U. Ravaioli, to appear on Journal of Computational Electronics, vol. 1, 2002. (198 KB PDF)

2.

"Particle Monte Carlo simulation of quantum phenomena in semiconductor nanostructures",  H. Tsuchiya, and U. Ravaioli, Journal of Applied Physics, vol. 89, pp. 4023-4029, 2001. (129 KB PDF)

 

Lecture 1

Quantum Corrections in Monte Carlo Device Simulation
  Presentation - download (764 KB PDF)

 


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