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In semi-classical transport, it has become common practice over the past few decades to use ensemble Monte Carlo (EMC) methods for the simulation of transport in semiconductor devices. This method utilizes particles while still addressing…

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The non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach offers a practical framework for simulating various phenomena in mesoscopic systems. As the dimension of electronic devices shrinks to just a few nanometers, the need for new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Vahid Mosallanejad , Kuei-Lin Chiu , Wenjie Dou

The Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism is a particularly powerful method to simulate the quantum transport properties of nanoscale devices such as transistors, photo-diodes, or memory cells, in the ballistic limit of…

We aim to provide engineers with an introduction to the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) approach, which provides a powerful conceptual tool and a practical analysis method to treat small electronic devices quantum mechanically and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. P. Anantram , M. S. Lundstrom , D. E. Nikonov

We study the nonlinear elastic quantum electronic transport properties of nanoscopic devices using the Nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method. The Green's function method allows us to expand the $I-V$ characteristics of a given…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-14 Alexis R. Hernández , Caio H. Lewenkopf

Through the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) formalism, quantum-scale device simulation can be performed with the inclusion of electron-phonon scattering. However, the simulation of realistically sized devices under the NEGF…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Stephen Cauley , Mathieu Luisier , Venkataramanan Balakrishnan , Gerhard Klimeck , Cheng-Kok Koh

Since proposed in the 70s, the Non-Equilibrium Green Function (NEGF) method has been recognized as a standard approach to quantum transport simulations. Although it achieves superiority in simulation accuracy, the tremendous computational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-12-05 Yingzhanghao Zhou , Xiang Chen , Peng Zhang , Jun Wang , Lei Wang , Hong Guo

We review one of the most versatile theoretical approaches to the study of time-dependent correlated quantum transport in nano-systems: the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Within this formalism, one can treat, on the same…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 M. Ridley , N. W. Talarico , D. Karlsson , N. Lo Gullo , R. Tuovinen

We present an efficient implemention of a non-equilibrium Green function (NEGF) method for self-consistent calculations of electron transport and forces in nanostructured materials. The electronic structure is described at the level of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Jingzhe Chen , Kristian S. Thygesen , Karsten W. Jacobsen

A quantum transport model incorporating spin scattering processes is presented using the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism within the self-consistent Born approximation. This model offers a unified approach by capturing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ahmet Ali Yanik , Gerhard Klimeck , Supriyo Datta

We present an atomistic quantum transport simulation framework based on the Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) formalism to model impact ionization in semiconductor avalanche devices, with direct relevance to near-term quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Colin Burdine , Nischal Binod Gautam , Enrique P. Blair

This work describes a novel simulation approach that combines machine learning and device modelling simulations. The device simulations are based on the quantum mechanical non-equilibrium Greens function (NEGF) approach and the machine…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Preslav Aleksandrov , Ali Rezaei , Nikolas Xeni , Tapas Dutta , Asen Asenov , Vihar Georgiev

As the characteristic lengths of advanced electronic devices are approaching the atomic scale, ab initio simulation method, with fully consideration of quantum mechanical effects, becomes essential to study the quantum transport phenomenon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 Meng Ye , Xiangwei Jiang , Shu-Shen Li , Lin-Wang Wang

A formalism for incorporating electron-phonon scattering into the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) framework that is applicable to planar MOSFETs is presented. Restructuring the NEGF equations in terms of approximate summation of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-24 Himadri S. Pal , Dmitri E. Nikonov , Raseong Kim , Mark S. Lundstrom

In this work, we propose an efficient computational scheme for first-principle quantum transport simulations to evaluate the open-boundary conditions. Its partitioning differentiates from conventional methods in that the contact self-energy…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-01 Guido Gandus , Youseung Lee , Daniele Passerone , Mathieu Luisier

In this work, the low rank approximation concept is extended to the non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method to achieve a very efficient approximated algorithm for coherent and incoherent electron transport. This new method is applied…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Lang Zeng , Yu He , Michael Povolotsky , XiaoYan Liu , Gerhard Klimeck , Tillmann Kubis

Non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) and quantum master equation (QME) are two main classes of approaches for electronic transport. We discuss various Floquet variances of these formalisms for transport properties of a quantum dot driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Vahid Mosallanejad , Yu Wang , Wenjie Dou

Non equilibrium Green's function methods are regularly used to calculate current and charge densities in nanoscale (both molecular and semiconductor) conductors under bias. This method is mainly used for ballistic conduction but may be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Paulsson

We derive a general expression for the electron nonequilibrium (NE) distribution function in the context of steady state quantum transport through a two-terminal nanodevice with interaction. The central idea for the use of NE distributions…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-26 H. Ness

The Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) method combined with ab initio calculations has been widely used to study charge transport in molecular junctions. However, the significant computational demands of high-resolution calculations…

Computational Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Xuan Ji , Qiang Qi , Yueqi Chen , Chen Zhou , Xi Yu
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