At the nanometer scale, the concepts of device and material meet, and a new device is a new material and vice versa. While atomistic device representations are novel to device physicists, the semiconductor materials modeling community usually treats infinitely periodic structures. The importance of the appropriate basis set representation that needs to be selected to cover the important physics of semiconductor devices will become evident. These two lectures will not focus on the underlying theories; they will focus on the application of the theories using the nanoelectronic modeling tools NEMO 1- D, NEMO 3-D, and OMEN to realistically extended devices. Topics to be covered are realistic resonant tunneling diodes, quantum dots, nanowires, and Ultra-Thin-Body Transistors.

Dr. Gerhard Klimeck is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University and serves as the Associate Director for Technologies of the National Science Foundation Network for Computational Nanotechnology since Dec. 2003. For the NCN he has been directing the replacement of web-form driven online simulation on www.nanoHUB.org by fully interactive simulations. The change in technology resulted in a six-fold growth of simulation user numbers in just over 2 years to over 5,900 annual users. His research interest is in the quantum mechanical modeling of electron transport through nanoelectronic devices, parallel computing, and genetic algorithms. This interest drove the development of NEMO 1-D and NEMO3-D. Dr. Klimeck received his Ph.D. in 1994 from Purdue University and his German electrical engineering degree in 1990 from Ruhr-University Bochum.

This set of lectures is part of the 2010 NCN@Purdue Summer School: Electronics from the Bottom Up.

“Electronics from the Bottom Up” is an educational initiative designed to bring a new perspective to the field of nano device engineering. It is co-sponsored by the Intel Foundation and the Network for Computational Nanotechnology.

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Gerhard Klimeck (2011), "Tutorial 4: Far-From-Equilibrium Quantum Transport," https://nanohub.org/resources/11042.

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1. band structure
2. coherent transport adiabatic passage
3. computational electronics
4. course lecture
5. high performance computing (HPC)
6. modeling
7. nanoelectronics
8. nanowires
9. NCN Group - Nanoelectronics
10. NEGF
11. NEMO
12. NEMO1D
13. nemo-3D
14. quantum transport
15. resonant tunneling diodes
16. rtd
17. Simulation
18. Summer School
19. transistors
20. tunneling