Modeling and simulation of the diffusive transport in a nano-scale Double-Gate MOSFET

by P.Pietra and N.Vauchelet

J. Comput Elec. 7 (2008), 56-65.


ABSTRACT

In this work we present the modeling and the simulation of the diffusive transport of an electron gas confined in a nanostructure. A general subband decomposition approach is used, consisting of a diagonalization of the Hamiltonian on slices perpendicular to the transport direction. A self-consistent process between the calculation of the electron density and the space charge effects using the Poisson equation is defined. The subband model describes the system as a statistical mixture of eigenstates of the Schroedinger operator in the confined direction. The elementary states are obtained thanks to the resolution of a classical transport equation. Thanks to a separation of the confined and the transport directions, the computational gain is significant by the reduction of the dimension of the transport problem. Simulations of transport in a nanoscale Double-Gate MOSFET are presented.





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