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This study investigates ferrohydrodynamic heat transfer enhancement in a two-dimensional 90 degree bend channel through systematic parametric analysis of externally applied non-uniform magnetic fields, using Numerical CFD simulations.

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We propose a Heterojunction Vertical Tunneling FET and show using self-consistent ballistic quantum transport simulations that it can provide very steep subthreshold swings and high ON current, thereby improving the scalability of Tunnel…

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The nudged-elastic band (NEB) method is modified with concomitant two climbing images (C2-NEB) to find a transition state (TS) in complex energy landscapes, such as those with serpentine minimal energy path (MEP). If a single climbing image…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-11-28 Nikolai A. Zarkevich , Duane D. Johnson

III-V tunneling field-effect transistors (TFETs) offer great potentials in future low-power electronics application due to their steep subthreshold slope and large "on" current. Their 3D quantum transport study using non-equilibrium Green's…

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The mathematical complexity and high dimensionality of neural networks slow both training and deployment, demanding heavy computational resources. This has driven the search for alternative architectures built from novel components,…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Jake McNaughton , A. H. Abbas , Ivan S. Maksymov

Spatial aspects in quantum mechanics are often difficult to model in geometrically intricate settings that are typical of mesoscopic physics. In such cases, predicting the device behaviors is a vital but difficult challenge. Transverse…

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We present an approach based on density-functional theory for the calculation of fundamental gaps of both finite and periodic two-dimensional (2D) electronic systems. The computational cost of our approach is comparable to that of total…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-08-11 Alberto Guandalini , Alice Ruini , Esa Räsänen , Carlo Andrea Rozzi , Stefano Pittalis

The Band to Band tunneling probability strongly depends on the shape of the potential barrier. However, parabolic approximation of this shape is well acceptable but unfortunately significant amount of error is unavoidable by using quadratic…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 Arnesh Sen , Jayoti Das

Automatic synthesis of analog and Radio Frequency (RF) circuits is a trending approach that requires an efficient circuit modeling method. This is due to the expensive cost of running a large number of simulations at each synthesis cycle.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Morteza Fayazi , Morteza Tavakoli Taba , Amirata Tabatabavakili , Ehsan Afshari , Ronald Dreslinski

The main contribution of this thesis is to investigate the incorporating skin and proximity effects in magnetic induction tomography (MIT) coils and present an improved model for the two-dimensional (2D) forward problem. To evaluate the…

Medical Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Hassan Yazdanian

3D reconstruction technology generates three-dimensional representations of real-world objects, scenes, or environments using sensor data such as 2D images, with extensive applications in robotics, autonomous vehicles, and virtual reality…

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A semi-empirical formalism based on the second moment tight binding approach, considering two bands is presented for deriving interatomic potentials for magnetic d-band materials and transition metal alloys. It incorporates an empirical…

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Tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) based on vertical stacking of two dimensional materials are of interest for low-power logic devices. The monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with sizable band gaps show promise in…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-06 Cheng Gong , Hengji Zhang , Weihua Wang , Luigi Colombo , Robert M. Wallace , Kyeongjae Cho

We investigate the thermoelectric performance of 2D nanojunctions with gate tunable architectures and varying channel lengths from 3 to 12 nm using a combination of first principles simulations, including density functional theory, DFT with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Yu-Chang Chen , Yu-Chen Chang

6G wireless technology is projected to adopt higher and wider frequency bands, enabled by highly directional beamforming. However, the vast bandwidths available also make the impact of beam squint in massive multiple input and multiple…

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We report a new computational model for simulations of electromagnetic interactions with semiconductor quantum well(s) (SQW) in complex electromagnetic geometries using the finite difference time domain (FDTD) method. The presented model is…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-20 Koustuban Ravi , Qian Wang , Seng-Tiong Ho

The nudged elastic band (NEB) method is one of the most widely used techniques for determining minimum-energy reaction pathways and activation barriers between known initial and final states. However, conventional implementations face steep…

Computational Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Qiuhan Jia , Jiuyang Shi , Jian Sun

Time-dependent perturbations can drive a trivial two-dimensional band insulator into a quantum Hall-like phase, with protected nonequilibrium states bound to its edges. We propose an experiment to probe the existence of these topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Benjamin M. Fregoso , Jan P. Dahlhaus , Joel E. Moore

Transition metal dichalcogenide materials $MX_2 (M=Mo,W;X=S,Se)$ are being thoroughly studied due to their novel two-dimensional structure, that is associated with exceptional optical and transport properties. From a computational point of…

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