Multi‑scale simulations of two dimensional material based devices: the NanoTCAD ViDES suite
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Springer Nature
Materia
NanoTCAD ViDES Multi-scale approaches Non-equilibrium Green functions Open Source Nanoelectronics Elastic transport Dissipative transport Drift-diffusion Printed-devices
Date
2023-06-05Referencia bibliográfica
Marian, D., Marin, E.G., Perucchini, M. et al. Multi-scale simulations of two dimensional material based devices: the NanoTCAD ViDES suite. J Comput Electron (2023). [https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-023-02048-2]
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Università di Pisa within the CRUI-CARE; ERC PEP2D (contract No. 770047; Italian Ministry of Education and Research (MIUR) in the framework of the FoReLab project (Departments of Excellence)Résumé
NanoTCAD ViDES (Versatile DEvice Simulator) is an open-source suite of computing codes aimed at assessing the operation
and the performance of nanoelectronic devices. It has served the computational nanoelectronic community for almost two
decades and it is freely available to researchers around the world in its website (http://vides.nanotcad.com), being employed
in hundreds of works by many electronic device simulation groups worldwide. We revise the code structure and its main
modules and we present the new features directed towards (i) multi-scale approaches exploiting ab-initio electron-structure
calculations, aiming at the exploitation of new physics in electronic devices, (ii) the inclusion of arbitrary heterostructures
of layered materials to devise original device architectures and operation, and (iii) the exploration of novel low-cost, green
technologies in the mesoscopic scale, as, e.g. printed electronics.