Study Quantum Transport Phenomena in Nano Devices

The purpose of this research is to study the electronic properties of new materials such as Phosphorous & graphene and their application in the semiconductor device area such as Field Effect Transistors. We use Green's function formalism to solve the Schrodinger equation in order to study the transport phenomena in nanotransistors having new 2D materials such as Phosphorene nanoribbon or Graphene nanoribbon. The electrostatic potential in the device will be investigated by solving the 2D/3D Poisson's equation using Finite-Difference or Finite-Element methods.

Computational methods:
The major method in our code is the Finite-Difference Method to solve the two-dimensional Poisson's equation.

Software:

We want to run MATLAB codes because our code needs high performance processors with above 8GB RAM which we cannot run on our personal computers.
We may use Gaussian09 in order to study the electronic properties of materials.

Faculty involved in project:

Zhi D Chen (PI)

Students:

Hojjatollah Sarvari, PhD student in EE