Coupling atomistic and continuous media models for electronic device simulation

Journal of Computational Electronics

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 553-562

  Auf der Maur, Matthias ^a   Pecchia, Alessandro ^b   Penazzi, Gabriele ^c   Sacconi, Fabio ^d   Di Carlo, Aldo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^d Tiberlab Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atomistic models; Device simulation; Multiscale modeling

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM THEORY; THERMOELECTRIC EQUIPMENT;

APPLICATION EXAMPLES; ATOMISTIC MODELS; CLASSICAL MODEL; CONTINUOUS MEDIA; DEVICE SIMULATIONS; ELECTRONIC DEVICE; MULTI-SCALE MODELING; QUANTUM MECHANICAL SIMULATIONS;

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84890855529     PISSN: 15698025     EISSN: 15728137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10825-013-0517-0     Document Type: Article

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