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An effective mass based model accounting for the conduction band quantization in a high aspect ratio semiconductor nanotip is developed to describe injected electron transport and subsequent electron emission from the nanotip. A transfer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Andrei Piryatinski , Chengkun Huang , Thomas J. T. Kwan

Semi-Empirical Tight Binding (TB) is known to be a scalable and accurate atomistic representation for electron transport for realistically extended nano-scaled semiconductor devices that might contain millions of atoms. In this paper an…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Ganesh Hegde , Michael Povolotskyi , Tillmann Kubis , Timothy Boykin , Gerhard Klimeck

The simulation of charge transport in ultra-scaled electronic devices requires the knowledge of the atomic configuration and the associated potential. Such "atomistic" device simulation is most commonly handled using a tight-binding…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-02 Maarten L. Van de Put , Massimo V. Fischetti , William G. Vandenberghe

We present a model of electron transport through a random distribution of interacting quantum dots embedded in a dielectric matrix to simulate realistic devices. The method underlying the model depends only on fundamental parameters of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-25 S. Illera , J. D. Prades , A. Cirera , A. Cornet

A coupled quantum-classical model describing the transport of electrons confined in nanoscale semiconductor devices is considered. Using the subband decomposition approach allows to separate the transport directions from the confinement…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2012-07-02 Paola Pietra , Nicolas Vauchelet

The trajectory surface hopping method has been widely used in the simulation of charge transport in organic semiconductors. In the present study, we employ the machine learning (ML) based Hamiltonian to simulate the charge transport in…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-03-24 Philipp M. Dohmen , Mila Krämer , Patrick Reiser , Pascal Friederich , Marcus Elstner , Weiwei Xie

In this paper, an optoelectronic device simulation framework valid for arbitrary spatial variation of electronic potentials and optical modes, and for transport regimes ranging from ballistic to diffusive, is used to study non-local photon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-17 Urs Aeberhard

In this work, a new theoretical approach to study the non-equilibrium transport properties of nanoscale systems coupled to metallic electrodes with strong electron-phonon interactions is presented. The proposed approach consists in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-07-31 R. Seoane Souto , A. Levy Yeyati , A. Martín-Rodero , R. C. Monreal

We describe a semi-empirical atomic basis Extended H\"uckel Theoretical (EHT) technique that can be used to calculate bulk bandstructure, surface density of states, electronic transmission and interfacial chemistry of various materials…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 Diego Kienle , Jorge I. Cerda , Avik W. Ghosh

The continuous scaling of metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) has led to device geometries where charged carriers are increasingly confined to ever smaller channel cross sections. This development is associated with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Leonard Deuschle , Jiang Cao , Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas , Anders Winka , Alexander Maeder , Nicolas Vetsch , Mathieu Luisier

Electron transport within nanostructures can be important to varied engineering applications, such as thermoelectrics and nanoelectronics. In theoretical studies, electron Monte Carlo simulations are widely used as an alternative approach…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Qing Hao , Yue Xiao

In this article, we report a theoretical analysis of a nanoelectromechanical shuttle based on a multiscale model that combines microscopic electronic structure data with macroscopic dynamics. The microscopic part utilizes a (static) density…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. Huldt , J. M. Kinaret

We present an application of a new formalism to treat the quantum transport properties of fully interacting nanoscale junctions [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 84}, 235428 (2011)]. We consider a model single-molecule nanojunction in the presence of two…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-15 H. Ness , L. K. Dash

We have developed a simulation system for nanoscale high-electron mobility transistors, in which the self-consistent solution of Poisson and Schr\"odinger equations is obtained with the finite element method. We solve the exact set of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh , Reza Ashrafi , Sina Khorasani

We present a theoretical framework for the calculation of charge transport through nanowire-based Schottky-barrier field-effect transistors that is conceptually simple but still captures the relevant physical mechanisms of the transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-07-26 Daijiro Nozaki , Jens Kunstmann , Felix Zörgiebel , Walter M. Weber , Thomas Mikolajick , Gianaurelio Cuniberti

We present a numerical investigation of energy and charge distributions during electron-beam-induced growth of W nanostructures on SiO2 substrates using Monte Carlo simulation of electron transport. This study gives a quantitative insight…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-11-26 Francesc Salvat-Pujol , Harald O. Jeschke , Roser Valenti

Electric-field-driven electrolyte transport through nanoporous membranes is important for applications including osmotic power generation, sensing and iontronics. We derive an analytical equation in the Debye--H\"uckel regime and a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-01 Holly C. M. Baldock , David M. Huang

Nanomechanical shuttles transferring small groups of electrons or even individual electrons from one electrode to another offer a novel approach to the problem of controlled charge transport. Here, we report the fabrication of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. V. Moskalenko , S. N. Gordeev , O. F. Koentjoro , P. R. Raithby , R. W. French , F. Marken , S. E. Savel'ev

Electrons in operating microelectronic semiconductor devices are accelerated by locally varying strong electric field to acquire effective electron temperatures nonuniformly distributing in nanoscales and largely exceeding the temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Le Yang , Ruijie Qian , Zhenghua An , Susumu Komiyama , Wei Lu

Impressive advances in the field of molecular spintronics allow one to study electron transport through individual magnetic molecules embedded between metallic leads in the purely quantum regime of single electron tunneling. Besides…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-05 Alessandro Chiesa , Emilio Macaluso , Paolo Santini , Stefano Carretta , Eva Pavarini
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