The downscaling of electronic devices has reached the range where the number of atoms in critical dimensions is countable, geometries are formed in three dimensions and new materials are being introduced. Under these conditions one can argue that the overall geometry constitutes a new material that cannot be found as such in nature and the distinction between new device and new material are blurry. The interactions of electronic, photons, and lattice vibrations are now governed by these new material properties and longer-range interaction mechanisms such as strain and gate fields. The Nanoelectronic Modeling tool suite NEMO5 is aimed to comprehend the critical multi-scale, multi-physics phenomena and deliver results to engineers, scientists, and students through efficient computational approaches. NEMO5’s general software framework easily includes any kind of atomistic model and is, insofar, able to compute atomistic strain, electronics band structures, charge density, current and potential, Schrödinger eigenvalues and wave-functions, phonon spectra, and non-equilibrium Green functions (NEGF) transport for a large variety of semiconductor materials and the software is entirely parallelized. We believe that such modeling capability is not available in any other modeling tool at this time.

The work conducted in the group spans a wide range of devices and concepts from work with the leading semiconductor industries on technologies for the sub 10nm transistors, over optical devices to improve lighting, to foundational device physics for quantum computing in Silicon. This presentation overviews various aspects of NEMO5 capabilities and interactions with academia and industry.

Gerhard Klimeck is the Reilly Director of the Center for Predictive Materials and Devices (c-PRIMED) and the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He guides the technical developments and strategies of nanoHUB.org which annually serves over 1.4 million visitors worldwide with on-line simulation, tutorials, and seminars.

He was previously with NASA/JPL and Texas Instruments leading the Nanoelectronic Modeling Tool development (NEMO). His work is documented in over 450 peer-reviewed journal and proceedings articles resulting in over 10,000 citations and a citation h-index of 52 on Google Scholar. He is a fellow of the IEEE, American Physical Society, and the Institute of Physics.

In collaboration with Michael Povolotskyi, Tillmann Kubis, James E. Fonseca, Bozidar Novakovic, Rajib Rahman, Tarek Ameen, James Charles, Junzhe Geng, Kaspar Haume, Yu He, Ganesh Hegde, Yuling Hsueh, Hesam Ilatikhameneh, Zhengping Jiang, SungGeun Kim, Daniel Lemus, Daniel Mejia, Kai Miao, Samik Mukherjee, Seung Hyun Park, Ahmed Reza, Mehdi Salmani, Parijat Sengupta, Saima Sharmin, Yaohua Tan, Archana Tankasala, Daniel Valencia, Evan Wilson

Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Gerhard Klimeck (2016), "NEMO5, a Parallel, Multiscale, Multiphysics Nanoelectronics Modeling Tool," https://nanohub.org/resources/24932.

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1. band structure
2. devices
3. modeling
4. multiscale modeling and simulation
5. nanoelectronics
6. NEGF
7. NEMO5
8. semiconductor devices
9. semiconductors
10. Simulation
11. tunneling
12. wavefunction