Quantum transport in semiconductor devices :simulation using particles /

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"Version: 20231101"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Particles in classical transport -- 1.2. The quantum mechanical view of particles -- 1.3. Electronic devices as complex systems -- 1.4. Probability and particles -- 1.5. Various approaches for semiconductor devices -- 1.6. An outline of this book -- Appendix A. On quantization and second quantization2. The microscopic world and microscopic properties -- 2.1. The measurement problem in quantum mechanics -- 2.2. Measurements and the environment -- 2.3. Landauer and contacts -- 2.4. Microscopic properties and the measurement of classical systems -- 2.5. Microscopic properties and the measurement of quantum systems -- 2.6. Single-time measurements -- 2.7. Multi-time measurements -- 2.8. Displacement current -- Appendix A. Weak and strong measurements3. Many-body open systems outside thermodynamic equilibrium -- 3.1. The many-body problem in quantum mechanics -- 3.2. Open systems--interaction with the environment -- 3.3. Wave functions for open systems -- 3.4. Microscopic equations of motion for particles -- 3.5. The macroscopic world and thermodynamicspart II. General modeling considerations. 4. An overview of semiconductor devices -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Diodes and bipolar junction transistors -- 4.3. The MOSFET -- 4.4. MESFETs -- 4.5. The high-electron-mobility transistor -- 4.6. Other interesting devices -- 4.7. Ballistic transport -- 4.8. Optical devices5. What is needed from quantum mechanics -- 5.1. Space- and timescales -- 5.2. Entanglement -- 5.3. Particles in quantum transport -- 5.4. Current approaches -- 5.5. Tunneling with particles -- 5.6. Spin -- 5.7. Time dependence -- Appendix A. Classical and quantum brackets -- Appendix B. Spin and second quantization for fermions6. Electron-atom interaction : band structure -- 6.1. The basics of energy bands -- 6.2. Real-space approaches -- 6.3. Momentum-space approaches -- 6.4. The k - p approximation -- 6.5. Broadening of the band edges -- 6.6. The effective-mass approximation -- 6.7. Strain -- 6.8. Connecting transport to the band structure -- 6.9. Phonons : beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation7. Electron interactions with fields : the electrostatic approximation -- 7.1. Poisson's equation and charge distributions -- 7.2. The self-consistency of the transport equation -- 7.3. Apportioning the charge -- 7.4. Boundary conditions -- 7.5. Not always so simple8. Beyond the electrostatic approximation -- 8.1. Maxwell's equations and the gauge -- 8.2. Cutoff frequencies -- 8.3. Circuit effects -- 8.4. Finite-difference time-domain analysis -- 8.5. Electromagnetic field quantization -- 8.6. Electron-photon interactions -- 8.7. Electron-electron scattering -- 8.8. The quantization of electrons and radiationpart III. Simulation techniques. 9. The Monte Carlo method -- 9.1. The path integral -- 9.2. Free-flight generation -- 9.3. Scattering -- 9.4. Rejection techniques -- 9.5. Full-band approaches10. Effective potentials and Bohmian trajectories -- 10.1. On the role of particle size -- 10.2. The Bohm potential -- 10.3. The Wigner potential -- 10.4. Feynman's effective potentials -- 10.5. Determining effective potentials using Bohmian conditional wave functions -- Appendix A. Empirical and theoretical definitions of weak values11. Wigner functions -- 11.1. Some properties of the Wigner function -- 11.2. Generalizing the Wigner function -- 11.3. The use of particles with the Wigner function -- 11.4. Particles in Wigner optics -- 11.5. Scattering with Wigner functions -- 11.6. Device simulation with Wigner particles12. Why not Green's functions? -- 12.1. Equations of motion -- 12.2. A high-field solution -- 12.3. The limitations of NEGFs -- 12.4. NEGFs in devices -- 12.5. The use of particles in NEGFs.This text treats the modeling 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.Graduate students, engineers and scientists working with semiconductor devices.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.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 Aut?onoma 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'?Electronique de Micro?electronique 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.Title from PDF title page (viewed on December 1, 2023).

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