Abstract
As the scaling of electronic devices approaches to the end of the roadmap quantum phenomena play an important role not only in the electrostatics but also in the electron transport. This work presents the capabilities of a novel implementation of Multi-Subband Ensemble Monte Carlo simulators (MS-EMC) including transport quantum phenomena. In particular, an effective computational scheme of tunneling mechanisms (including S/D tunneling, GLM and BTBT) is shown taking advantage of the main features of semi-classical transport models which are the reduction of the computational requirements and a higher flexibility in comparison to purely full quantum codes.
This work has been supported in part by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme Marie Curie Action (Programme Andalucía Talent Hub) under Grant 291780, in part by the Horizon 2020 projects REMINDER under Grant 687931 and WAYTOGO-FAST under Grant 662175, and in part by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitivity under Grant TEC2017-89800-R.
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Sampedro, C. et al. (2020). Multi-Subband Ensemble Monte Carlo Simulator for Nanodevices in the End of the Roadmap. In: Lirkov, I., Margenov, S. (eds) Large-Scale Scientific Computing. LSSC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11958. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41032-2_50
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