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Former Research Faculties

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  Tillmann Kubis

  Feb 10 - Jan 17

  Research Topic

  • NEMO 5: Development of a next-generation quantum simulator
  • General tight-binding Hamilton constructor (arbitrary basis sets, strain models, passivated surfaces, etc.).
  • General surface passivator.
  • General electronic strain Hamiltonian for tight-binding representations.
  • General Schroedinger simulator.
  • General and multi-purpose NEGF-solver.
  • NEGF toolbox (inputdeck-codeable NEGF) in Python.
  • Low rank approximation of electronic NEGF in effective mass, tight binding.
  • Low rank approximation of phonon NEGF in various VFF phonon models.
  • Efficient MPI communication for implementation of realistic incoherent scattering in NEGF.
  • General electronic strain Hamiltonian for tight-binding representations.
  • Transport and device applications in/with topological insulators.
  • Ultrascaled transistors in Si and III/V semiconductor materials.
  • Transport and bandstructure in Graphene nanoribbons and nanomeshes.
  • Conceptual improvement of terahertz quantum cascade lasers.
  • Investigation of phonon and electron transport in thermoelectric semiconductor nanodevices.

  Remark

  • current website

  
  
• 

  Michael Povolotskyi

  Sept 09 - March 17

  Research Topic

  • Software Engineering and NEMO Development.
    
  • General code structure
  • Parallel atomic structure generator
  • The Poisson equation solver
  • Input parser
  • Atomistic modeling of heterostructures
  • Device modeling
• 

  Rajib Rahman

  Aug 12 - March 17

  Research Topic

  • Solid-state quantum computation: Quantum dots and defects.
  • Electronic structure and transport in Quantum dots (III-V, Si, SiGe).
  • Coherence, relaxation, and excitation mechanisms in silicon: electron-phonon, electron-photon, spin-spin, electron-electron interactions.
  • Many particle electronic structure from Configuration Interaction: Exchange and correlation effects.
  • 2D material based field effect devices (Bilayer Graphene and Transition metal dichalcogenides).
  • Atomistic modeling of Nitride based devices.
• 

  Mathieu Luisier

  Feb 08 - Aug 11

  Research, Development, and Deployment Topic

  Software Engineering and OMEN Development.
  

  • Development of Numerical algorithms for OMEN:
    • Scaling to 59,904 cores. In part published in [P_2008_14].
    • Scaling of OMEN on a variety of different HPC resources
    • A new linear solver based on an optimized renormalization method [J_2008_7],[P_2008_11].

  OMEN applications:

  • Band-to-band-tunneling in InAs devices
    • Momentum-Energy-Resolved Transport in Full-Band Simulations
    • Charge Self-consistent Full-Band Transport in Realistic Structures
    • Gate Control and Sub-Threshold Swing in BTBT
      Comparison of in pin InAs Devices – SG-UTB / DG-UTB / NW.
  • InAs/InAlGaAs HEMT devices. To be published at IEDM 2008 [J_2008_14].
  • n- and p-doped double-gate MOSFETs for the 22nm technology node [J_2008_12].
  • Scatttering in nanowires - atomistic, full band with all phonon modes [J124]

  Remark

  Now Faculty Member at ETH Zürich
  

Former Research Scientists

• 

  Jim Fonseca

  Aug 11 - March 17

  Research Topic

  • Software Engineering and NEMO5 Development
  • Group, project, and technical resources management
  • Liaison to external corporate, governmental, and academic groups
  • NEMO5 infrastructure development
  • NEMO5 build management
  • NEMO5 testing

Former Post-Doctoral Researchers

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  Jun Huang

  Dec 13

  Research Topic

  • Tight binding mode space approach for efficient quantum transport simulation.
  • Stable and reliable k.p solver for electronic structure and transport calculation.
  • Tunnel field-effect transistor design and simulation.
  • Multiscale simulation method.
• 

  Bozidar Novakovic

  Aug 12 - March 17

  Research Topic

  • Quantum transport methods for efficient non-local scattering and improved predictability of device energy-delay characteristics.
  • Simulation and modeling of devices for reduced power consumption and short channel effects.
  • Efficient self-consistent algorithms for coupled Poisson and transport equations.
  • NEMO5 device simulation software co-developing, debugging, and testing.
• 

  Jean Michel Sellier

  Dec 08 - Apr 10 / Nov 11 - Oct 12

  Research Topic

  • Stationary Schroedinger-Poisson numerical simulations
  • Time-Dependent Schroedinger-Poisson numerical simulations
  • Decomposition of spatial domains to obtain faster NEGF simulations
  • Monte-Carlo matrix vector decompositions
• 

  Hong Hyun Park

  July 09 - Dec 11

  Research Topic

  Noise in nanoelectronics and Software Engineering and NEMO Development.
  

  • Developing SIMSN for mode- and real-space NEGF simulations.
  • Modeling of electronic noise and analysis.
  • Si/Ge transistor work in progress.
  • Developing new-NEMO for atomistic tight-binding NEGF simulations.
• 

  Denis Areshkin

  May 10 - Dec 11

  Research Topic

  NEMO Development.
  
• 

  Sebastian Steiger

  Jan 10 - Aug 11

  Research Topics

  • NEMO 5: Development of a next-generation quantum simulator.
    
    • MPI Parallelization.
    • Numerical solver interfaces.
    • High performance computing.
    • Visualization.
    • Strain solver using atomistic VFF model.
    • Phonon solver using atomistic VFF model.
    • Transport simulations (w/ H.-H. Park).
    • Brillouin zones.
    • Sb-heterostructure simulation.
    • Nanohub tools.
  • ANGEL: A NEGF simulator for LEDs.
  • Investigation of optoelectronic structures concentrating on carrier transport.

  Remark

  Now at Google Zürich
  
• 

  Ben Haley

  Nov 06 - Jan 10

  Research Topic

  • Scientific computing in OMEN and NEMO 3D
  • nanoHUB application development and support

  Remark

  now at Purdue in HUBzero team
  
• 

  Shaikh Ahmed

  Feb 05 - Aug 07

  Research Topic

  nanoscale FET simulators

  Remark

  now a professor now at Southern University ot Illinois at Carbondale

  • current website
  • contributor webpage on nanoHUB.org

  
  
• 

  Clemens Heitzinger

  Aug 05 - Dec 06

  Research Topic

  nanowire simulators and dna sensing

  • Modeling and simulation of nanoscale field-effect biosensors.

  Remark

  now at University of Vienna
  
• 

  Marta Prada

  Jan 06 - Sept 06

  Research Topic

  • Si/InAs Composite Channels: Low Effective Mass and Direct Bandgap Structures
  • Magnetic field dependence of valley-splitting in miscut (100) SiGe/Si/SiGe quantum wells [J_2007_6].
  • Spin-Orbit Coupling (SOC) Parameters in Si/SiGe QWs: Structure (SIA) and Bulk (BIA) Inversion Asymmetry

  Remark

  now at U Wisconsin Madison
  
• 

  Marek Korkusinski

  July 03 - June 04

  Research Topic

  Multi-million atom quantum dot simulations

  Remark

  now at NRC, Canada
  
• 

  Olga Lazarenkova

  Feb 02 - Jan 04

  Research Topic

  Phonons in Quantum Dots

  Remark

  NRC post-doc at JPL
  

Graduated Ph.D. Students

• 

  Daniel Valencia

  Aug 12 - Aug 18

  Research Topic

  • Simulation tools
  • Transport properties of graphene
• 

  Daniel Mejia

  May 11 - May 18

  Research Topic

  • Stats Analytics
  • Data Visualizations
  • User Behavior of Web Communities
  • Software development for NEMO 5 and nanoHUB.org.
• 

  Junzhe Geng

  Jun 10 - Aug 17

  Research Topic

  • Valley-orbit splitting in MOS quantum dot
  • Densely Phosphorous-doped Silicon(Si:P) devices

  Nanohub tools

  • Peroidic Potential Lab
  • Bandstructure Lab
  • Schred
• 

  Archana Tankasala

  Aug 12 - Aug 17

  Research Topic

  • Mathematical modeling
• 

  Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh

  Aug 11 - June 17

  Research Interest:

  • Quantum Transport
  • Electron-electron interaction
  • Second Quantization
  • Coulomb blockade
  • Atomistic strain simulation and Molecular dynamics
  • New Transistors
  • HTc Superconductors
  • Numerical methods: FEM, FVM, Mesh-less methods
• 

  Yu Wang

  Aug 12 - May 17

  Research Interest

  • Silicon quantum computing devices
  • Lead algorithm in NEGF
  • Complex band structures and quantum transport calculations
• 

  Fan Chen

  Oct 12 - Jan 17

  Research Topic

  • Aharnov-Bohm effect in Bi2Te3 nano wire
  • Electron Mobility of Bi2Te3 Ultra Thin Film
  • Electron Transport in junctionless transistor based on k.p method
  • Bilayer graphene device transport
  • Parameterization of Perovskite Material using DFT method
• 

  Kai Miao

  Aug 10 - Jan 17

  Research Topic

  • Study of phonon transport in semiconductor nanostructures.
  • Study of SiGe superlattice nanowires as thermoelectric device.
  • Study of the strain effect on GaAs nanowire.
• 

  Zhengping Jiang

  May 11 - Dec 15

  Research Topic

  Simulation of nano-scale devices:

  • Multi-scale simulation of Resonance Tunneling Diode(RTD).
  • Quantum transport in Tunnel FETs.(Ongoing, from May, 2011)

  Numerical methodologies in quantum transport:

  • RTD simulation tool with NEGF by using C and Matlab mixed programming.
  • Complex eigenvalue resonance finder.

  Electronic properties of materials:

  • Valley degeneracy in Si quantum wells with strain and surface miscut.
  • Bandstructure unfolding for non-primitive unit cell and disordered materials.

  Quantum computing:

  • Valley splitting in Si quantum wells.
  • Spin qubit in Si devices.(Ongoing, from May, 2011)

  Software development for NEMO 5 and nanoHUB.org.
• 

  Yaohua Tan

  Aug 08 - Dec 15

  Research Topic

  Mapping of ab-initio methods to tight binding and application to nanoscale transport.

  • Mapping of ab-initio methods to tight binding and application to nanoscale transport.
  • Ab-initio band unfolding
  • Tight Binding parameterization of strained materials
  • Tight Binding parameterization of superlattices
  • Mapping of ab-initio to Tight Binding (application to UTBs)
  • Parameterization of 2D materials
• 

  Yui-Hong Matthias Tan

  Aug 09 - July 15

  Research Topic

  • Optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots
  • Coulomb-blockaded transport in single atom transistors
  • Modeling of Si:P donor-cluster based quantum computing devices
  • Metallic conduction limits in atomic-scale nanowires
• 

  Yu He

  Aug 09 - Sept 15

  Research Topic

  • Basis Reduction in Tight binding
  • Phonon scattering in III-V materials
• 

  Mehdi Salmani Jelodar

  Jan 09 - Dec 14

  Research Topics

  • Electronic Structure:
    • Parameterization of strained silicon tight-binding model [J132]
    • Fitting process of tight binding parameters mapping from ab-initio calculation.
    • Ab-inito and tight binding calculation for electronic structure of Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) [C330].
  • Lattice Dynamics:
    
    • Development of Enhanced Valence Force Field (EVFF) model [J163][C314]
      
    • Using EVFF for computing phonon spectrum and thermal properties of III-V alloy nanowires [J172 ].
      
    • He is working on expanding the application of the model for atomistic computation of III-V alloys.
  • Nano-Scale Device Modeling:
    • Modeling InAs based HEMT device and contact [C332][C329] .
      
    • Sub-15nm FinFET and double gate device modeling using OMEN
    • Modeling MoS2 and Graphene based devices [C330].
      
  • Tool Development:
    • Enhanced an existing device modeling tool (OMEN-FET) on NanoHUB.org
      
    • Improvement and integration of PGAPack to NEMO5 as a large scale optimization toolbox.
• 

  Ganesh Hegde

  May 10 - Dec 13

  Research Topic

  First principles study of the effect of Surface orientation on Fermi Level Pinning in III-V-Oxide interfaces

  • Surface effects in III-V Oxide interfaces

  Generation and optimization of Tight Binding parameters at Low Temperature using Genetic Algorithms (Master's Thesis)

  • Tight Binding using Genetic Algorithms

  Comparative Atomic structure study in InGaAs QD's using harmonic and anharmonic VFF models implemented in NEMO3D

  • Atomic Structure of InGaAs QD's

  Development of Genetic Algorithm Optimization engine within the Rappture framework on nanoHUB.org

  • Rappture based Optimization

  Remark

  co-advised with Michael McLennan (Masters) and Alejandro Strachan (Ph.D)
• 

  Parijat Sengupta

  Aug. 08 - Jan 14

  Research Topic

• • 2D and 3D Topological Insulators
  • Nitride based HEMTs
  • Electronic Structure Calculation with 8 band k.p [P_2011_3]
• 

  Seung Hyun Park

  Jan. 10 - July 14

  Research Topic

  • Quantum simulation of advanced transistors.
    • Performance comparisons of III-V and strained-Si in planar FETs and non-planar FinFETs at ultra-short gate length (12nm/8nm).[OMEN]
    • Contact-to-channel resistance modeling and analysis of InAs high electron mobility transistor (HEMT)[NEMO5]
    • Modeling and analysis of nano-scale Si transistors at ultra-short gate length under 8nm: What is different below 10nm? [OMEN]
    • Scaling effect on specific contact resistivity in nanoscale
      metal-semiconductor contact [OMEN]
    • Surface orientation engineering of idealized III-V FET for high current densities and thin inversion layers [OMEN] and [NEMO5]
    • Benchmark under-the-barrier model as an extension of the top-of-the-barrier model for nanoscale transistors [NEMO5]
    • Enhance an existing device modeling tool (nanoFET) on nanoHUB.org [NEMO5]
  • Electronic structure of donors from tight-binding method.
    • Hyperfine interaction mapping of donor electron wave function deformations [NEMO-3D].
    • Adiabatic coherent electron transport in triple donor systems [NEMO-3D].
    • Stark tuning of the charge states of a two-donor molecule
      i n silicon [NEMO-3D]
• 

  Saumitra Mehrotra

  Aug 07 - Feb 14

  Research Topic

  Quantum transport simulation

  • Development of Nanowire code on nanoHUB.
  • Development of simulation tools for semiconductor course work..
  • surface and orientation dependence on performance of nanowire PMOS.
  • benchmarking Top of the Barrier model with 3D simulation using OMEN.
  • Benchmarking of bulk SiGe and strained SiGe/(100)Si bandstructure using Tight-binding VCA model
  • .Effect of biaxial+uniaxial compressive strain on SiGe /Si hole bandstructure and pMOSFET
    
  • Atomistic approach to alloy scattering in SiGe
  • Performance enhancement of GaAs UTB pFETs by strain, orientation and body thickness engineering
  • Engineering nanowire n-MOSFETs at Lg < 8nm using OMEN
  • Ballistic hole injection velocity analysis in Ge UTB pMOSFETs using OMEN
  • Atomistic simulation of phonon and alloy limited hole mobility in Si1-xGex nan owires using NEMO5
  • Simulation Study of Thin-Body Ballistic n-MOSFET Involving Transport in Mixed Γ-L valleys.[J192] using NEMO5
  • Effect of Fin Tapering in Nanoscale Si FinFETs[P169] using NEMO5
• 

  Sung Geun Kim

  Aug 07 - Dec 13

  Research Topic

  Quantum simulation of nanoscale devices:

  • NEMO5 Applications
  • Graphene nanomesh transistors
  • Bandgap calculation for comparison with experimental work (X. Liang, NanoLett2010)
  • Collaboration with Dr. Jihong's group at Purdue University
  • Graphene nanoribbon/III-V Tunneling transistors
  • Collaboration with Dr. Jena's group and Dr. Seabaugh's group at University of NotreDame
  • MuGFET Tool Development/Applications
  • Drift diffusion simulator tool development for multigate field effect transistors (MuGFET). [C_2008_7][C_2008_25]: MuGFET
  • MuGFET has been validated against experimental data and used to study short channel effects and Guassian doping profile
  • OMEN Nanowire Tool Development
  • Atomistic simulation tool development for nanowire field effect transistors: OMEN Nanowire
  • OMEN Nanowire simulation time/memory estimation for various size of nanowires
  • OMEN Applications
  • Influences of interface roughness scattering in silicon nanowire transistors on current, mobility. transmission and electron density[C_2010_10][J_2011_2][C_2011_8], and cut-off frequency[J_2011_28][C_2011_24] in silicon nanowire FETs.
  • Local roughness effects on current characteristics in silicon nanowire FETs
• 

  Sunhee Lee

  Aug 06 - Dec 11

  Research Topic

  Tool Development & Numerical Engineering

  • Developing a totally new C++ based nanoelectronic modeling tool (NEMO 3-D: link to previous version) with 3D spatial decomposition, a part of OMEN package [link] [P_2009_4][P_2009_5][P_2009_9]
  • Code optimization, performance benchmarking using TAU, output examples, [link]
  • Numerical implementation/engineering for iterative linear/eigenvalue solvers (with W.T.Aung)

  Collaborative Projects using NEMO 3-D

  • Finding bandstructure properties of highly doped Si:P system with NEMO 3-D (H.Ryu) [P_2009_4]
  • Development of an educational tool, 1D-HETERO using NEMO 3-D, deployed in nanoHUB (J.M.Sellier)
  • Looking at the subthreshold property of undoped n-finFETs using NEMO 3-D based on the ballistic transport model (A.Paul)
  • Comparison of transport properties between tight binding model and k.p (Dr. M.Shin @ KAIST) [P_2009_10]

  New Research Project(s)

  • Investigating the sensitivity of exchange splitting due to surface disorders in Si double quantum dot for quantum computing [link]
• 

  Abhijeet Paul

  Aug 06 - Oct 11

  Research Topic

  Nanowire and finFET transport simulations

  • Electrostatics of semiconductor nanowire mosFETs Orientation dependance of charge distribution in silicon nanowire transistors. The work was presented at Techcon 2008 held at Austin, Texas on November 3/4 , 2008 [P96]
  • Electronic band-structure calculation in bulk semiconductors as well as confined structures like nanowires, ultra-thin bodies (UTB). This work led to the developement of latest version of Bandstructure Lab V2.0 tool.
  • Development of tools and simulators for Discover and Learning.
  • Electrical properties of semiconducting nanowires, developement of modeling tools and comparison of 2D and 3D transport models for nanowires.
  • Study of the validity of the Top-of-the-Barrier Model in Nanowire FETs. The model is found to work in close agreement with 3D model for a range of device cross-sections and channel lengths. This work was presented at the 13th International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE) held at Tsinghua University, in Beijing from May 27-29, 2009. [P109]
  • Study of surface and transport oreintation on P-type Nanowire FETs. This work was presented at the proceedings of 7th IEEE Workshop on Microelectronics and Electron Devices (WMED 2009), Apr 03, 2009. [P108]
  • Benchmarking of Top-of-the-Barrier Model with experimental CV data. This work was done in joint collaboration with IME Singapore, who provided the experimental data. This work has been published in IEEE EDL, vol 30, issue 5, 2009.

  Presently he is working on these following research areas:

  • Study of quantum transport in Nanowire and DGMOS FETs based on Si-Ge alloy system.
  • Study of thermoelectric properties in confined semi-conductor systems using ballistic and diffusive approach
  • Study of Non-equilibrium phonon systems to understand thermal properties of nanostructured semiconductor devices using NEGF method.
• 

  Hoon Ryu

  July 06 - Aug 11

  Research Topic

  Software Engineering and Development

  • Inverstigation of electronic properties of highly P-doped Si. (Chart is coming soon!)
  • Study of optical properties of self-assembled InAs/GaAs Quantum Dot system with realistic dimensions.[C_2008_27]
  • Incorporation of Contact Block Reduction with atomisic full band model and verification of its basis-dependent efficiency criteria.[P_2008_13]
  • Study of spin blockage phenomena in InGaAs/AlGaAs double dot systems. [J_2008_2]

  Remark

  Now at KISTI (Korea Institute of Science Technology Information)
• 

  Samarth Agarwal

  Jun 05 - Dec 10

  Research Topic

  • Effective band-gaps of a superlattice [J_2010_1] [C_2009_16]
  • Design ideas for Tunnel-FETs [J_2010_5]
  • Adaptive Quadrature for Sharply Spiked Integrands Journal link

  This work has resulted in software tools on the nanohub:

  • Quantum transport in Resonant Tunneling Diodes (NEGF based).
  • RTD simulation tool with NEGF by using C and Matlab mixed programming.
  • Poisson Schrodinger Solver for 1D heterostructures.
  • Piecewise Constant Potential Barrier Tool.

  Remark

  Physics, Co-advised w/ Ron Reifenberger
• 

  Amritanshu Palaria

  Aug 05 - Dec 10

  Research Topic

  Ab-initio calculations of Si strucutres
  

  • Overview (surface and strain effects in nanostructures).
  • Geometry morphology and properties of 1 nm silicon nanowires . The work is published in [J_2008_2 1]
  • Electrical properties of Si-Ge-Si heterowires
  • Adapting tight binding for non-bulk bonds. The work is published in [P_2008_6]
  • nanoHUB Applications related to material simulations.

  Remark

  Co-advised w/ Alejandro Strachan
• 

  Muhammad Usman

  Aug 05 - Aug 10

  Research Topic

  Multi-Million Atom simulations of quantum dots

  • Electronic structure calculations of single and coupled quantum dots. In this project, the electronic structure including atomistic strain and piezo-electricity is computed. This work is presented in [P_2008_8] and [P_2006_9].
  • Fine Structure Splitting in QDs Crystal Symmetry, Strain, and Piezo-Electricity. This work is published in [P_2007_1].
  • Spectral energy tuning of InAs quantum dots with InGaAs quantum wells. In this project, the wavelength of single InAs quantum dots is engineered by varying the In composition of InGaAs quantum wells. This work is published in [P_2008_4] and [J_2009_14]
  • Quantitative spectroscopy of bilayer QD molecules for Quantum Information Processing. An experimental bilayer QD molecule is quantitatively designed for coherent coupling of excitonic states. This work is under review in ACS Nano Journal 2010.
  • TE/TM Ratio Tailoring of Single and Bilayer QDs for Optical Amplifiers. In this project, single and bilayer QD stacks are designed for isotropic polarization dependences of optical transition. The work is under review Journal of Applied Physics Publication 2010.

  Muhammand Usman is currently working on the following projects.

  • Design of columnar QDs for isotropic polarization dependence of optical transitions.
  • Comparision of atomistic VFF models.
• 

  Neophytos Neophytou

  Nov 06 - Jan 10

  Research Topic

  NEGF transport in ultra-scaled devices:

  Remark

  Co-advised w/ Mark Lundstrom, now at Technical University Vienna
  

  He has worked on the following research projects:

  • A 3D atomistic quantum simulator for realistic CNT structures. The work is published in [J_2006_7, J_2007_10, P_2006_3].
  • A 2D ballistic model for the investigation of atomistic bandstructure effects.
    The work is published in [ J_2008_19]
  • Bandstructure effects in Si nanowire electron transport.
    The work is published in [ J_2008_11].
  • Bandstructure effects in Si nanowire hole transport.
    The work is published in [ J_2008_19].
  • Design for variability tolerance: On current variation in [110] PMOS nanowires.
    The work is published in [ J_2009_3].
  • Quantum transport in III-V HEMTs for high performance logic applications . The work is accepted in TED (also in Arxiv:0810.1540).
• 

  Rajib Rahman

  Dec 05 - Feb 09

  Research Topic

  Atomistic Impurity Modeling in Si:

  Remark

  Co-advised w/ Lloyd Hollenberg, Melbourne
  now at Sandia National Lab
  

  During his tenure in the Klimeck group he worked on the following research projects.

  • High precision quantum control of single donor spins in Si.
  • Gate induced quantum confinement transition of a single dopant atom in a Si FinFET.
  • Transport-based dopant mapping in advanced FinFETs.
  • Anisotropic Hyperfine Interaction (AHF)
  • Coherent Transport Adiabatic Passage (CTAP)
  • D- Modeling for As Donors
  • Charge Qubit Control
• 

  Neerav Kharche

  Jan 05 - Nov 08

  Research Topic

  Electronic structure of strained Si quantum wells and transport in InGaAs channels:

  Remark

  Co-advised w/ Tim Boykin, UAH
  now Computational Scientist at RPI
  

  During his tenure in the Klimeck group he worked on the following research projects:

  • Magnetic field dependence of valley-splitting in miscut (100) SiGe/Si/SiGe quantum wells [J79].
  • Transport characteristics of SiGe nanowires[J104, P76].
  • Valley degeneracies in (111) Si quantum wells[J113, P76].
  • Performance Analysis of Ultra-Scaled InAs HEMTs
• 

  Ahmed Ali Yanik

  Dec 03 - May 07

  Research Topic

  NEGF transport and spin effects

  Remark

  Physics, Co-advised w/ Supriyo Datta and Ron Reifenberger, now at Boston University
  
• 

  Anisur Rahman

  Dec 03 - Aug 05

  Research Topic

  Simulation of Nanoscale MOSFETs with Novel Channel Materials

  Remark

  Co-advised w/ Mark Lundstrom, now at Intel
  

Graduated Master's Students

• 

  Samik Mukherjee

  Aug 12 - Dec 18

  Research Interest

  • Nanoelectronic simulations
• 

  Robert Andrawis

  Aug 14 - Jan 15

  Research Interest

  • Plasmonics, Microwave Circuits, NEGF, Computational Physics and Neural Networks.
• 

  Saima Sharmin

  Aug 12 - Aug 15

  Research Topics

  • Design optimization of polarization-engineered ІII-Nitride tunnel FETs
  • Modeling Nitride TFETs with phenomenological scattering
• 

  Ahmed Reza

  Aug 12 - July 14

  Research Interest

  • Nano electronics modelling
• 

  Arun Goud Akkala

  Jun 10 - Dec 11

  Research Topic

  During his tenure in the Klimeck group he has been working on the following research projects:

  • 1D Heterostructure Tool with NEMO5 simulator.
  • A Rappture based Brillouin Zone viewer.
• 

  Woo-Suhl Cho

  Aug 08 - Aug 11

  Research Topic

  Atomistic Quantum Dot Modeling

  • Quantum Confined Stark Effect in identical and non-identical QD stacks
• 

  Xufeng Wang

  Aug 08 - Aug 10

  Research Topic

  nanoelectronic modeling of wires and UTBs

  • Semi-classical simulation of III-V DG MOSFET. This research involves nanoMOS.
  • Silicon nanowire modeling and characterization

  During his tenure in the Klimeck group he worked on the following research projects:

  • Rapid Application Infrastructure (Rappture) deployment on simulation tools for nanoHUB.

  Remark

  co-advised with Mark Lundstrom
• 

  Kaushik Balamukundan

  Aug 06 - June 08

  Research Topic

  Atomistic 1D heterostructure models

  Remark

  Now at Intel

Former Undergraduate Research Students

• 

  Santiago Serrano

  Jan 16 - Jul 16,

  Research Topic

  Spin - Photon Coupling on Semiconductor Quantum Dots

  Remark

  Colciencias - Nexo Global 2016 student
• 

  Siqi Wang

  May 10 - Aug 10, May 11 - Aug 11

  Research Topic

  Multi Materials based Nanowire

  Remark

  SURF2010 student, SURF2011 student
• 

  Kelsey Holley

  May 11 - Aug 11

  Research Topic

  • working on integrating NEMO5 into the nanoFET tool

  Remark

  • SURF2011 student
• 

  Siqi Cheng

  May 11 - Aug 11

  Research Topic

  • energy band structure calculation with tight-binding method in Nanowires and reliability problems in Nanowires

  Remark

  • Working on to improve RTDnegf tool
  • SURF2011 student
• 

  Yi Shen

  May 11 - Aug 11

  Research Topic

  • working on "Band Structure Lab" with NEMO 5

  Remark

  • SURF2011 student
• 

  Jesus Madrid

  May 11 - Aug 11

  Research Topic

  • Integrating NEMO 5 on the "CNTbands" tool.

  Remark

  • SURF2011 student
• 

  Nicolas Esquivel Camacho

  May 11 - Aug 11

  Research Topic

  • Integrating NEMO5 on "The Band Structure Lab" tool.

  Remark

  • SURF2011 student
• 

  Win Than

  Dec 08 - Dec 10

  Research Topic

  Numerical optimization for OMEN
  
• 

  Abhinav Sinha

  May 10 - Aug 10

  Research Topic

  Simulation of Resonant Tunneling Diodes

  Remark

  SURF10 student
• 

  Muhammad AizuddinZulkifli

  May 10 - Aug 10

  Research Topic

  Phonon NEGF tool

  Remark

  SURF10 student
• 

  Lars Bjaalie

  May 10 - Aug 10

  Research Topic

  Run the NanoHub.org tool "Quantum Dot Lab" with NEMO 5 instead of NEMO 3-D

  Remark

  SURF10 student
• 

  Victoria Savikhin

  June 09 - Aug 09

  Research Topic

  Rappture application development for nanoHUB.org - Crystal Viewer

  Remark

  SURI 2009
• 

  Junzhe Geng

  June 09 - Aug 09

  Research Topic

  Rappture application development for nanoHUB.org

  Remark

  SURI 2009, REU student
• 

  Naman Chopra

  Nov 08 - Aug 09

  Research Topic

  Rappture application development for nanoHUB.org

  Remark

  SURI 2009, REU student
• 

  Thomas Andrews

  May 08 - Aug 08

  Research Topic

  Rappture application deployment on nanoHUB

  Remark

  SURF08 student
• 

  Drew Schuster

  May 08 - Aug 08

  Research Topic

  Rappture application deployment on nanoHUB

  Remark

  REU student
• 

  Gloria Budiman

  May 08 - Aug 08

  Research Topic

  Rappture application deployment on nanoHUB

  Remark

  SURF08 student
• 

  Mario Salomon

  May 08 - Aug 08

  Research Topic

  Further Developing MuGFET by Adding 3D and 2D Functionality, and Improving Output Accuracy and Simulation Times

  Remark

  SURF08 student
• 

  Michael Jaurrieta

  May 08 - Aug 08

  Research Topic

  Online application which simulates a graphene structure and executes an animation of its conversion to a carbon nanotube

  Remark

  SURF08 student
• 

  Xufeng Wang

  June 06 - Jul 08

  Research Topic

  Rappture application development for nanoHUB.org

  Remark

  SURI 2006, REU student, now a graduate student in the Klimeck research group
• 

  Sriraman Damodaran

  Sept 06 - Dec 07

  Research Topic

  Rappture application deployment on nanoHUB, DNA sensors, nanowire simulations

  Remark

  REU student
• 

  Matteo Mannino

  Jun 05 - Apr 06 and Jan 07 - Jun 07

  Research Topic

  Rappture application deployment on nanoHUB:

  Remark

  SURI 2005, REU student
• 

  Amanda Weitzel

  Sept 06 - May 07

  Research Topic

  Software testing, autocompile

  Remark

  REU student
• 

  Anish Dhanekula

  June 06 - Jan 07

  Research Topic

  Rappture application deployment on nanoHUB

  Remark

  REU student
• 

  Akira Matsudaira

  Jun 05 - Dec 05

  Research Topic

  Rappture application deployment on nanoHUB

  Remark

  SURI 2005, REU student
• 

  Katie Ikuko Kitamura

  Sept 05 - Dec 05

  Research Topic

  Rappture application deployment on nanoHUB

  Remark

  REU student
• 

  Aaron Christensen

  June - Aug 04

  Research Topic

  Visualization of and Educational Tool for Quantum Dots

  Remark

  SURI 2004 Program
• 

  Adrian Rios

  June - Aug 04

  Research Topic

  Visualization of and Educational Tool for Quantum Dots

  Remark

  SURI 2004 Program
• 

  Patrick Macnamara

  June - Aug 04

  Research Topic

  Quantum Dots Visualization Software using Electron Wave Function

  Remark

  SURI 2004 Program
• 

  Laurie St. Ange

  June - Aug 04

  Research Topic

  Quantum Dots Visualization Software using Electron Wave Function

  Remark

  SURI 2004 Program
• 

  Muriel Fort

  June - Aug 04

  Research Topic

  Visualization of CNT FET Electrical Field Lines

  Remark

  SURI 2004 Program
• 

  Sameer Hamdan

  June - Aug 04

  Research Topic

  Visualization of CNT FET Electrical Field Lines

  Remark

  SURI 2004 Program

Former Master's Students

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  Seungmin Kim

  Aug 07 - Aug 08

  Research Topic

  • Valley degeneracies in (111) Si quantum wells [J_2009_2].
• 

  Hemanth Hedge

  Aug 06 - May 07

  Research Topic

  Numerical Issues in NEMO3D

  Remark

  Now with Prof. Delp
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  Rezwan Chowdhury

  Aug. 06 - May 07

  Research Topic

  Transport in nanowires

  Remark

  Non-thesis master's
• 

  Jing Li

  Aug 04 - Aug 05

  Research Topic

  Strain Effects in Quantum Dots

  Remark

  Now with Prof. Kaushik Roy

Former Ph.D. Students

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  David Saenz

  Aug 11

  Research Topic

  • nanoHUB mobile: Mobile version for tools on the nanoHUB.
  • nanoHUB tools: Thermoelectric Cooling Simulator (TEC), rappture support.
  • NEMO5: User interfacing.
• 

  Srikant Srinivasan

  Aug 05 - Jan 07

  Research Topic

  • Valley Splitting in Silicon quantum dots

  Remark

  Co-advised w/ Leonid Rokhinson, now with Prof. Datta
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  Abu Naser Md. Zainuddin

  Aug 06 - Jan 07

  Research Topic

  • Atomistic Non-equilibrium Green’s function approach for Graphene nano-ribbon structure in Quantum Hall regime

  Remark

  Now with Prof. Datta

Former Visiting Scientist

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  Santiago Perez

  Aug 13 - July 14

  Research Interest

  • Computer Engineering
• 

  Lang Zeng

  Nov 09 - April 11

  Research Topic

  • modeling and simulation of carrier transport details in SB MOSFET
  • modeling and simulation of nanoscale device & circuits parameter fluctuations due to process variation
  • modeling and simulation of quantum effect in nanoscale device
  • modeling and simulation of carbon-based electronics in graphene and Carbon Nanotube