Nanoelectronics

Moore's Law and the Future of Solid-State Electronics

Double Gate MOSFET

Introduction

As silicon transistors are getting smaller and smaller, eventually quantum mechanical effects will dominate.


Triple Gate MOSFET

Tutorials


Capacitance-Voltage (MIS)

Metal-insulator-semiconductor structure

Capacitance-Voltage curve of a “metal”-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) structure

What you can learn:
  • apply a bias
  • self-consistent Schrödinger-Poisson equation

Ultrathin-body Double Gate FET - DG MOSFET (Double Gate Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor)

Double Gate MOSFET

Double Gate MOSFET (Metal Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistor)

What you can learn:
  • 2D and 3D simulations, drift-diffusion, mobility models
  • self-consistent Current-Poisson equation in 2D and 3D

Electron density

Resonant Tunneling Diode

RTD
Resonant Tunneling Diode - nextnano.MSB software
(Resonant Tunneling Diode - nextnano3 software)
I-V characteristics calculated with a nonequilibrium Green's function approach (NEGF)