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Incoherent transport in NEMO5: realistic and efficient scattering on phonons

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In this work, the coherent and incoherent transport simulation capabilities of the multipurpose nanodevice simulation tool NEMO5 are presented and applied on transport in tunneling field-effect transistors. The comparison with experimental resistivity data confirms the validity of NEMO5’s phonon-scattering models. Common pitfalls of numerical implementations and the applicability of common approximations of scattering self-energies are discussed. The impact of phonon-assisted tunneling on the performance of TFETs is exemplified with a concrete Si nanowire device. The communication-efficient implementation of self-energies in NEMO5 is demonstrated with a scaling comparison of self-energies solved with blocking and nonblocking MPI-communication.

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The use of nanoHUB.org computational resources operated by the Network for Computational Nanotechnology, funded by the US National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. EEC-0228390, EEC-1227110, EEC-0228390, EEC-0634750, OCI-0438246, OCI-0832623, and OCI-0721680, is gratefully acknowledged. NEMO5 developments were critically supported by an NSF Peta-Apps award OCI-0749140 and by Intel Corp. This work was supported in part by funding from the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s Global Research Collaboration (GRC) (2653.001), and Member Specific Research Intel (MSR-Intel) (2434.001). Additional funding was provided by the Semiconductor Research Corporation membership in the Network for Computational Nanotechnology. This research is part of the Blue Waters’ sustained-petascale computing project, which is supported by the National Science Foundation (award number ACI 1238993) and the state of Illinois. Blue Waters is a joint effort of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications. This work is also part of the “Accelerating Nano-scale Transistor Innovation with NEMO5 on Blue Waters” PRAC allocation support by the National Science Foundation (award number OCI-0832623). This research was supported in part through computational resources provided by Information Technology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

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    James Charles, Prasad Sarangapani, Robert Andrawis, Daniel Lemus, Xinchen Guo, Daniel Mejia & Gerhard Klimeck

  2. Network for Computational Nanotechnology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA

    James Charles, Prasad Sarangapani, Daniel Lemus, Xinchen Guo, Daniel Mejia, James E. Fonseca, Michael Povolotskyi, Tillmann Kubis & Gerhard Klimeck

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Charles, J., Sarangapani, P., Golizadeh-Mojarad, R. et al. Incoherent transport in NEMO5: realistic and efficient scattering on phonons. J Comput Electron 15, 1123–1129 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-016-0845-y

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