Effect of boundary treatments on quantum transport current in the Green's function and Wigner distribution methods for a nano-scale DG-MOSFET

Journal of Computational Physics

Volumn 229, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4461-4475

  Jiang, Haiyan ^a,b   Cai, Wei ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

Author keywords

DG MOSFET; Non equilibrium Green's function; Wigner function

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONS; MOSFET DEVICES; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHODS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SCHRODINGER EQUATION; WAVE FUNCTIONS;

BOUNDARY TREATMENT; DEVICE ACTIVE REGION; DOUBLE-GATE MOSFETS; ELECTRON WAVE; NONEQUILIBRIUM GREENS FUNCTION (NEGF); QUANTUM TRANSPORT; TRANSPORT CURRENTS; WIGNER DISTRIBUTION; WIGNER EQUATIONS; WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

POISSON EQUATION;

EID: 77951623724     PISSN: 00219991     EISSN: 10902716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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