International Workshop on

Computational Electronics (IWCE-9)

Villa Mondragone

Monte Porzio Catone (Rome), Italy

 

25-28 May 2003

 

PROGRAM

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Sunday, 25 May 2003

Sun.

18.00-21.00

Registration

Sun.

19.00-21.00

WELCOMING PARTY

 

Monday, 26 May 2003

NanoMOS 1
Chairman: S. M. Goodnick

Mon.

8.45-9.00

Prof. Alessandro Finazzi Agrò, Rector of the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”

Prof. Nicola Vittorio, Dean of the Faculty of Natural Science

Prof. Franco Giannini, Head of the Department of Electronic Engineering

Welcome address

Mon.

9.00-9.30

M. Fischetti (invited)

IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights

Scaling MOSFETs to the limit: A physicist’s perspective

Mon.

9.30-9.45

F. M. Buer, A. Schenk and W. Fichtner

Institut fur Integrierte Systeme, ETH Zurich

Monte Carlo, Hydrodynamic and Drift–Diffusion Simulation of Scaled Double–Gate MOSFETs

Mon.

9.45-10.00

G. Kathawala and U. Ravaioli

Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Comparison of Double-Gate MOSFETs and FinFETs with Monte Carlo Simulation

Mon.

10.00-10.15

Hideaki Tsuchiya, Motoki Horino and Tanroku Miyoshi

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Kobe University

Quantum Monte Carlo Device Simulation of Nano-Scaled SOI-MOSFETs

Mon.

10.15-10.30

G. Fiori, G. Iannaccone

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università di Pisa

"Atomistic", quantum and ballisticeffects in sub-100nm "well tempered" MOSFET

Mon.

10.30-11.00

COFFEE BREAK

Monday, 26 May 2003
Quantum transport 1
Chairman: M. P. Anatram

Mon.

11.00-11.15

L. Bonci, M. Macucci, D. Guan, U. Ravaioli

Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università di Pisa

Numerical analysis of tunneling between stacked quantum wires with the inclusion of the effects form effective mass discontinuities

Mon.

11.15-11.30

Ting-wei Tang and Bo Wu

Department of Electrical and computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts

Quantum Correction for the Monte Carlo Simulation via the Bohm Potential

Mon.

11.30-11.45

Andrea  Bertoni, Paolo Bordone, Giulio Ferrari, Nicoletta Giacobbi, Carlo Jacoboni

S3 Research Center, Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia

Proximity effect of the contacts in electron transport in mesoscopic devices

Mon.

11.45-12.00

R.Proietti Zaccaria, F.Rossi

INFM e Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Torino

Generalized wigner function formulation for quantum systems with open boundaries

Mon.

12.15-12.20

H. Kosina, M. Nedjalkov, and S. Selberherr

Institute for Microelectronics, TU Vienna

A Monte Carlo Method Seamlessly Linking Quantum and Classical Transport Calculations

Mon.

12.30-12.45

Gerhard Klimeck, Phillip Stout and R. Chris Bowen

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Quantum and semi-classical transport in RTDs using NEMO 1-D

Mon.

12.45-14.00

LUNCH BREAK


 

Monday, 26 May 2003
Transport/devices 1   
Chairman: C. Ringhofer

Mon.

14.00-14.30

Jason Ayubi-Moak, Shela Wigger, Stephen Goodnick and Marco Saraniti (invited)

Department of Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University and  Illinois Institute of Technology

Coupling Maxwell’s Equations to Full Band Particle -Based Simulators

Mon.

14.30-14.45

A. Wacker, S.-C. Lee, and M. F. Pereira

Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Technische Universitat Berlin

Quantum Transport and Gain in Quantum Cascade Lasers

Mon.

14.45-15.00

R. C. Iotti, F. Rossi

Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Torino

Microscopic modelling of opto-electronic quantum devices: A predictive simulation tool

Mon.

15.00-15.15

G.Csaba, W.Porod

Center for Nano Science and Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame

Restoration of magnetization distributions from joint magnetic force microscopy measurements and micromagnetic simulations

Special Section: Web Based Simulations

Mon.

15.15-15.45

Phantoms HUB: M. Macucci

ICODE: F. Compagnone

Mon.

15.45-16.00

COFFEE BREAK

Mon.

16.00-18.30

POSTER SESSION

With wine tasting and traditional snacks

 

 

 

Tuesday, 27 May 2003
Molecular and biological systems 1
Chairman: E. Molinari

Tue.

8.45-9.15

A. Svizhenko, A. Maiti and M. P. Anantram (invited)

NASA Ames Research Center

Modeling of the electro-mechanical response of carbon nanotubes: Molecular Dynamics and Transport Calculations

Tue.

9.15-9.45

T. van der Straaten, G. Kathawala and U. Ravaioli (invited)

Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

A Transport Monte Carlo Simulation Model for Ionic Channels

Tue.

9.45-10.00

Sheila Aboud, Marco Saraniti, R. Eisenberg

Molecular Biophysics Dept., Rush University and Illinois Institute of Technology

Computation issues in modeling ion transport in biological channel: Self-consistent particle based simulations

Tue.

10.00-10.15

R. Eisenberg

Molecular Biophysics Dept., Rush University

Understanding BioMolecules by Reverse Engineering

Tue.

10.15-10.30

C.Millar, A.Asenov and S.Roy

Device Modelling Group, Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Glasgow University

Brownian Ionic Channel Simulation

Mon.

10.30-11.00

COFFEE BREAK





Tuesday, 27 May 2003
NanoMOS 2
Chairman: W. Porod

Tue.

11.00-11.30

T. Ezaki (invited)

Silicon systems research laboratories, NEC Corporation

Sub-100nm MOSFET simulation based on fully 2D quantization of electrons

Tue.

11.30-11.45

S.E. Laux, A. Kumar and M.V. Fischetti

IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center   

Does Circulation in Individual Current States Survive in the Total Current Density?

Tue.

11.45-12.00

Hiroshi Nakatsuji, Yoshinari Kamakura, Kenji Tanichi

Department of electronics and information systems, Osaka University

Full band Monte Carlo simulation of two-dimensional hole transport in strained si p-MOSFETs

Tue.

12.00-12.15

M. P. Anantram and Alexei Svizhenko

Center for Nanotechnology, NASA Ames Research Center

Role of Phonon Scattering in Nanotransistors

Tue.

12.15-12.30

C.Ringofer, D.Vasileska

Department of mathematics, Arizona State University

Effective potential approach to modeling of 25nm MOSFET devices

Tue.

12.30-12.45

H. Takeda, N. Mori, and C. Hamaguchi

Department of Electronic Engineering, Osaka University

Quantum effects on transport characteristics in ultra-small MOSFETs

Tue.

12.45-14.00

LUNCH BREAK

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday, 27 May 2003
Quantum transport 2
Chairman: P. Vogl

Tue.

14.00-14.30

M. Lundstrom (invited)

Purdue University

Modal methods for Quantum Modeling of Semiconductor Devices

Tue.

14.30-14.45

John R. Barker

Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow

Green function simulation study of non self-averaging scattering processes in atomistic semiconductor devices

Tue.

14.45-15.00

M. Boriçi J. R. Watling, R. Wilkins, and J. R. Barker

Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Glasgow

A non perturbative model of surface roughness scattering for Monte Carlo simulation of relaxed silicon n-MOSFETs

Tue.

15.00-15.15

C. Hamaguchi

Dept. Electronic Engineering, Osaka University

High electron mobility limited by remote impurity scattering

Tue. 15.15-15.30

E. Ciancio, R. C: Iotti, F. Rossi

Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di Torino

Gauge invariant formulation of Fermi's Golden Rule: Application to high field transport in semiconductors

Tue 15.30-23.00

EXCURSION AND SOCIAL DINNER


 

      Wednesday, 28 May 2003
Molecular and biological systems 2
Chairman: C. Jacoboni

Wed. 8.45-9.15

A. Fisher (invited)

Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College

The role of phonons in molecular electronics: coherent and incoherent transport

Wed. 9.15-9.45

Otto F. Sankey1 , Jun Li1, Gil Speyer2, and John Tomfohr1, (invited)

1Department of Physics and Astronomy, 2Department of Electrical Engineering

 Arizona State University

Theoretical aspects of tunneling current through single molecules

Wed. 9.45-10.00

Alessandro Pecchia, Marieta Gheorghe, Luca Latessa, Aldo Di Carlo.

Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, Universita` di Roma "Tor Vergata"

Coherent and incoherent transport through molecular devices

Wed. 10.00-10.15

Christophe Adessi, Steven P. Walch and M. P. Anantram

LPMCN, Universite Claude Bernard Kyon

DNA Conductance Modeling

Wed. 10.15-10.30

A. Calzolari, R. Di Felice, and E. Molinari

INFM - National Research Center on nanoStructures and bioSystems at Surfaces

(S3) and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Computer Simulation of Biomolecular Nanostructures

Wed. 10.30-11.00

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, 28 May 2003
Transport/devices 2
Chairman: S. Laux

Wed. 11.00-11.30

S.Picozzi, R.Asahi, A.J. Freeman (invited)

INFM - Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi L'Aquila

Accurate First Principles detailed balance determination of auger recombination and impact ionization rates in semiconductors

Wed. 11.30-11.45

Y. Kazami, D. Kasai, Y. Mitani and K. Horio

Faculty of Systems Engineering, Shibaura Institute of Technology

Simulation of Lag Phenomena and Pulsed I-V Curves of Compound Semiconductor FETs as Affected by Impact Ionization

Wed. 11.45-12.00

N. J. Pilgrim, W. Batty, R. W. Kelsall

Institute of Microwaves and Photonics, School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Leeds

Electrothermal Monte Carlo simulations of InGaAs/GaAs HEMTs

Wed. 12.00-12.15

J. Branlard, S. Aboud, S. Goodnick, and M. Saraniti

Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Illinois Institute of Technology

Frequency analysis of 3D GaAs MESFET structures using full-band particle-based simulations.

Wed. 12.15-12.30

A. Gehring, H. Kosina, and S. Selberherr

Institute for Microelectronics, TU Vienna

Analysis of Gate Dielectric Stacks Using the Transmitting Boundary Method

Wed. 12.30-12.45

M. Städele, F. Sacconi, A. Di Carlo, and P. Lugli

Infineon Technologies AG and INFM-Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata

Tunnel mass enhancement and oxide thickness corrections in ultrathin SiO2 layers

Wed. 12.45-14.00

LUNCH BREAK


 

Wednesday, 28  May 2003
Quantum dots
Chairman: D. K. Ferry

Wed. 14.00-14.15

T. Kuhn, M. Glanemann, and V.M. Axt

Institut fur Festkorpertheorie, Westfalische Wilhelms Universitat Munster

Quantum control of carrier capture processes into localized states of a quantum dot

Wed. 14.15-14.30

Fabiano Oyafuso, Gerhard Klimeck, Timothy B. Boykin*, R. Chris Bowen, and Paul von Allmen

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology

Study of Strain Boundary Conditions and GaAs Buffer Sizes in InGaAs Quantum Dots

Wed. 14.30-14.45

M. Sabathil, D. Mamaluy, and P. Vogl

1Walter Schottky Institut, Technische Universität München

Efficient computational method for ballistic current and application to quantum dot RTD's

Wed. 14.45-15.00

M. Povolotskyi, J.Gleize, A. Di Carlo, P. Lugli, S.Birner, P.Vogl

INFM-Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata  and Walter Schottky Institute

Microscopic Description of Nanostructures grown on (N11) surfaces

Wed. 15.00-15.15

R. Akis, J.P. Bird and D.K. Ferry

Department of Electrical Engineering, ASU