TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ferry,David K.
AU  - Oriols,Xavier
AU  - Weinbub,Josef
ED  - Institute of Physics (Great Britain),
TI  - Quantum transport in semiconductor devices: simulation using particles 
T2  - [IOP release $release]
SN  - 9780750352376
AV  - QC611 .F477 2023eb
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK)
PB  - IOP Publishing
KW  - Semiconductors
KW  - Mathematical models
KW  - Computer simulation
KW  - Quantum theory
KW  - Transport theory
KW  - Electronic devices & materials
KW  - bicssc
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Electronics / Semiconductors
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - "Version: 20231101"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references; part I. Introduction. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Particles in classical transport -- 1.2. The quantum mechanical view of particles -- 1.3. Electronic devices as complex systems -- 1.4. Probability and particles -- 1.5. Various approaches for semiconductor devices -- 1.6. An outline of this book -- Appendix A. On quantization and second quantization; 2. The microscopic world and microscopic properties -- 2.1. The measurement problem in quantum mechanics -- 2.2. Measurements and the environment -- 2.3. Landauer and contacts -- 2.4. Microscopic properties and the measurement of classical systems -- 2.5. Microscopic properties and the measurement of quantum systems -- 2.6. Single-time measurements -- 2.7. Multi-time measurements -- 2.8. Displacement current -- Appendix A. Weak and strong measurements; 3. Many-body open systems outside thermodynamic equilibrium -- 3.1. The many-body problem in quantum mechanics -- 3.2. Open systems--interaction with the environment -- 3.3. Wave functions for open systems -- 3.4. Microscopic equations of motion for particles -- 3.5. The macroscopic world and thermodynamics; part II. General modeling considerations. 4. An overview of semiconductor devices -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Diodes and bipolar junction transistors -- 4.3. The MOSFET -- 4.4. MESFETs -- 4.5. The high-electron-mobility transistor -- 4.6. Other interesting devices -- 4.7. Ballistic transport -- 4.8. Optical devices; 5. What is needed from quantum mechanics -- 5.1. Space- and timescales -- 5.2. Entanglement -- 5.3. Particles in quantum transport -- 5.4. Current approaches -- 5.5. Tunneling with particles -- 5.6. Spin -- 5.7. Time dependence -- Appendix A. Classical and quantum brackets -- Appendix B. Spin and second quantization for fermions; 6. Electron-atom interaction : band structure -- 6.1. The basics of energy bands -- 6.2. Real-space approaches -- 6.3. Momentum-space approaches -- 6.4. The k - p approximation -- 6.5. Broadening of the band edges -- 6.6. The effective-mass approximation -- 6.7. Strain -- 6.8. Connecting transport to the band structure -- 6.9. Phonons : beyond the Born-Oppenheimer approximation; 7. Electron interactions with fields : the electrostatic approximation -- 7.1. Poisson's equation and charge distributions -- 7.2. The self-consistency of the transport equation -- 7.3. Apportioning the charge -- 7.4. Boundary conditions -- 7.5. Not always so simple; 8. Beyond the electrostatic approximation -- 8.1. Maxwell's equations and the gauge -- 8.2. Cutoff frequencies -- 8.3. Circuit effects -- 8.4. Finite-difference time-domain analysis -- 8.5. Electromagnetic field quantization -- 8.6. Electron-photon interactions -- 8.7. Electron-electron scattering -- 8.8. The quantization of electrons and radiation; part III. Simulation techniques. 9. The Monte Carlo method -- 9.1. The path integral -- 9.2. Free-flight generation -- 9.3. Scattering -- 9.4. Rejection techniques -- 9.5. Full-band approaches; 10. Effective potentials and Bohmian trajectories -- 10.1. On the role of particle size -- 10.2. The Bohm potential -- 10.3. The Wigner potential -- 10.4. Feynman's effective potentials -- 10.5. Determining effective potentials using Bohmian conditional wave functions -- Appendix A. Empirical and theoretical definitions of weak values; 11. Wigner functions -- 11.1. Some properties of the Wigner function -- 11.2. Generalizing the Wigner function -- 11.3. The use of particles with the Wigner function -- 11.4. Particles in Wigner optics -- 11.5. Scattering with Wigner functions -- 11.6. Device simulation with Wigner particles; 12. Why not Green's functions? -- 12.1. Equations of motion -- 12.2. A high-field solution -- 12.3. The limitations of NEGFs -- 12.4. NEGFs in devices -- 12.5. The use of particles in NEGFs; Graduate students, engineers and scientists working with semiconductor devices; Also available in print
N2  - This text treats the modeling and simulation of semiconductor devices in the quantum regime with particles, beginning with the early, and current, views of particles in quantum mechanics, and the full quantum mechanical approaches that make full use of this particle approach. Particle-based simulation techniques of quantum devices have the additional advantage of providing very simple and intuitive ways of understanding the transport of electrons, allowing a demystifying view of quantum phenomena in semiconductor devices. This is the first book to combine quantum transport and particle Monte Carlo techniques with a focus on modern semiconductor devices. Written in clear and accessible language suitable for graduate students, formal and technical details are included in several appendices, and a list of exercises and references for further reading are added at the end of each chapter
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