NEMO5: A parallel multiscale nanoelectronics modeling tool

IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1464-1474

  Steiger, Sebastian ^a   Povolotskyi, Michael ^b   Park, Hong Hyun ^b   Kubis, Tillmann ^b   Klimeck, Gerhard ^b  

^a GOOGLE   (Switzerland)

^b Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

Modeling; multiphysics; multiscale; nanoelectronics; nanostructures; NEMO; nonequilibrium Greens function formalism (NEGF); phonons; Poisson; quantum dot; quantum well; quantum wire; Schrdinger; simulation; strain; transport

Indexed keywords

MULTI-PHYSICS; MULTISCALE; NEMO; NON EQUILIBRIUM; POISSON; QUANTUM WELL; SCHRDINGER; SIMULATION; TRANSPORT;

BAND STRUCTURE; MODELS; NANOSTRUCTURES; NANOWIRES; PHONONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; RESONANT TUNNELING DIODES; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WIRES; STRAIN;

NANOELECTRONICS;

EID: 81255146379     PISSN: 1536125X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNANO.2011.2166164     Document Type: Article

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