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This text treats the modelling and simulation of semiconductor devices in the quantum regime with particles, beginning with the early, and current, views of particles in quantum mechanics, and the full quantum mechanical approaches that make full use of this particle approach. Particle-based simulation techniques of quantum devices have the additional advantage of providing very simple and intuitive ways of understanding the transport of electrons, allowing a demystifying view of quantum phenomena in semiconductor devices. This is the first book to combine quantum transport and particle Monte Carlo techniques with a focus on modern semiconductor devices. Written in clear and accessible language suitable for graduate students, formal and technical details are included in several appendices, and a list of exercises and references for further reading are added at the end of each chapter.
Key Features
- First book to combine quantum transport and particle Monte Carlo techniques with a focus on modern semiconductor devices
- Provides a particle-based view of modelling and simulation of semiconductor devices in the quantum regime
- Covers the fundamentals of device modelling and simulation
- Discusses the differences between classical and quantum transport
- Includes references to research and commercial simulation tools that utilize quantum effects, references to external visualization tools, and a supplementary website with additional content
David K. Ferry is a Regents' Professor Emeritus in the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the Institute of Physics. He researches nanostructure devices and quantum transport and has published more than 900 scientific articles and books.
Xavier Oriols is a Full Professor of Electronics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He studied Physics and received his doctoral degree in Electronic Engineering from UAB in 1999 with an extraordinary doctoral award. He worked at the Institut d’Électronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, in France and was a Visiting Professor at The State University of New York. His research covers a wide spectrum, from fundamental issues of physics to practical engineering of nanodevices.
Josef Weinbub is an Associate Professor at TU Wien, an IEEE Senior Member, and the current Vice Chair of the Modeling and Simulation Technical Committee of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council. He held visiting researcher positions with Silvaco, Inc. and the Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow. He conducts research in computational micro- and nanoelectronics and has published over 200 journal and conference articles.
Part I Introduction
1 Introduction
2 The microscopic world and microscopic properties
3 Many-body open systems outside thermodynamic equilibrium
Part II General modeling considerations
4 An overview of semiconductor devices
5 What is needed from quantum mechanics
6 Electron–atom interaction: band structure
7 Electron interactions with fields: the electrostatic approximation
8 Beyond the electrostatic approximation
Part III Simulation techniques
9 The Monte Carlo method
10 Effective potentials and Bohmian trajectories
11 Wigner functions
12 Why not Green’s functions?