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Stochastic Approaches to Electron Transport in Micro- and Nanostructures

Birkhäuser
  • Presents the synergistic link between the development of mathematical models in micro- and nanoelectronics and the emergence of stochastic methods for their simulation
  • Describes the evolution of the stochastic algorithms from classical to quantum transport conditions
  • Fills the gap between other monographs which focus on the physical or numerical theory

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Aspects of Electron Transport Modeling

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Concepts of Device Modeling

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 3-14
    3. The Semiconductor Model: Fundamentals

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 15-23
    4. Transport Theories in Phase Space

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 25-38
    5. Monte Carlo Computing

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 39-43
  3. Stochastic Algorithms for Boltzmann Transport

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 45-45
    2. Homogeneous Transport: Empirical Approach

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 47-53
    3. Homogeneous Transport: Stochastic Approach

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 55-61
    4. Small Signal Analysis

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 63-72
    5. Inhomogeneous Stationary Transport

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 73-92
    6. General Transport: Self-Consistent Mixed Problem

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 93-105
    7. Event Biasing

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 107-115
  4. Stochastic Algorithms for Quantum Transport

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
    2. Wigner Function Modeling

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 119-121
    3. Evolution in a Quantum Wire

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 123-145
    4. Hierarchy of Kinetic Models

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 147-152
    5. Stationary Quantum Particle Attributes

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 153-173
    6. Transient Quantum Particle Attributes

      • Mihail Nedjalkov, Ivan Dimov, Siegfried Selberherr
      Pages 175-189
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 191-214

About this book

The book serves as a synergistic link between the development of mathematical models and the emergence of stochastic (Monte Carlo) methods applied for the simulation of current transport in electronic devices. Regarding the models, the historical evolution path, beginning from the classical charge carrier transport models for microelectronics to current quantum-based nanoelectronics, is explicatively followed. Accordingly, the solution methods are elucidated from the early phenomenological single particle algorithms applicable for stationary homogeneous physical conditions up to the complex algorithms required for quantum transport, based on particle generation and annihilation. The book fills the gap between monographs focusing on the development of the theory and the physical aspects of models, their application, and their solution methods and monographs dealing with the purely theoretical approaches for finding stochastic solutions of Fredholm integral equations.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Microelectronics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Technische Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

    Mihail Nedjalkov, Siegfried Selberherr

  • Institute for Information and Communication Technologies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Ivan Dimov

About the authors

Mihail (Mixi) Nedjalkov holds a Ph.D. degree in Physics and a Doctor of Science degree in Mathematics from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). He is a Senior Researcher with TU Wien, Austria and an Associated Professor with BAS. He published over 200 papers and one monograph. His research interests include solid-state physics, modeling of classical (Boltzmann) and quantum (Wigner) electron transport in micro- and nanostructures, collective phenomena, and theory and application of stochastic methods.

Ivan Dimov is a Professor of Mathematical Modelling at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS). His research interests include Monte Carlo methods, computational physics, parallel algorithms and GRIDs, and environmental mathematical modeling. He is author of more than 170 scientific papers, 4 monographs and 15 book editorships. He served as a Scientific Secretary with BAS and received the highest Bulgarian scientific award, the Marin Drinov medal on ribbon.

Siegfried Selberherr is a Chair Professor at the TU Wien, Austria. With his research teams, he has published about 2000 manuscripts in journals, in books, and in proceedings, including 3 monographs and about 50 edited volumes. His research interests are modeling and simulation for nano- and microelectronics engineering. He has received numerous honors; he is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, of the Academia Europaea, and of the European Academy of Science and Arts.

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Softcover Book USD 159.99
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Hardcover Book USD 159.99
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