Tarek Ameen

Universal Behavior in strain in uantum dots

DEVICE:

  • self-assembled quantum dots

PROBLEM:

  • Atomistic strain is too expensive to compute.
  • Analytical strain is inaccurate and exist only for cuboid shape.

OBJECTIVE:

  • Significantly reduce computations.

RESULTS/IMPACT:

  • Atomistic strain depends on aspect ratio and materials and not on individual dimensions.
  • Fitted compact expressions that provide atomistic strain.
  • Compact model (EM) that sacrifices 5% accuracy but cost 20K less computations.
  • *Ilatikhameneh, H., Ameen, T., Klimeck, G., & Rahman, R. (2015). Universal Behavior of Strain in Quantum DotsIEEE JOURNAL OF QUANTUM ELECTRONICS, VOL. 52, NO. 7, JULY 2016.