VolQD: Direct volume rendering of multi-million atom quantum dot simulations

Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 41-

  Qiao, Wei ^a   Ebert, David S ^a   Entezari, Alireza ^b   Korkusinski, Marek ^a   Klimeck, Gerhard ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atomistic simulation; Face centered cubic lattice; Programmable graphics hardware; Quantum dots; Reconstruction filter; Volume rendering; Volume visualization

Indexed keywords

ATOMISTIC SIMULATION; RECONSTRUCTION FILTERS; VOLUME RENDERING; VOLUME VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DATA STRUCTURES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

EID: 33749433762     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VIS.2005.130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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