Quantum Transport in semiconductor devices

Some papers

Chapters 1, 2, and 3: On the problematic orthodox understanding of quantum phenomena

Xavier Oriols and David K. Ferry "Why engineers are right to avoid the quantum reality offered by the orthodox theory" Proceedings of IEEE, 109(6), 955-961 (2021).

Chapters 4 and 5: The old, past and future field-effect transistor

David K Ferry, Josef Weinbub, Mihail Nedjalkov and Siegfried Selberherr "A review of quantum transport in field-effect transistors" Semiconductor Science and Technology, Volume 37, Number 4, 37 043001 (2022).

Chapter 6: Electrons interacting with an oscillating semiconductor band structure

David K. Ferry "On a method of treating polar-optical phonons in real space" J Comput Electron 22, 1495–1499 (2023).

David K. Ferry "Non-equilibrium longitudinal optical phonons and their lifetimes featured" Appl. Phys. Rev. 8, 021324 (2021).

Carlos F. Destefani, Matteo Villani, Xavier Cartoixa, Michael Feiginov, Xavier Oriols "Resonant tunneling diodes in semiconductor microcavities: modeling polaritonic features in the THz displacement current" Phys. Rev. B 106, 205306 (2022).

Chapter 9: On the semiclasscial Monte Carlo and beyond

David K. Ferry, Mihail Nedjalkov, Josef Weinbub, Mauro Ballicchia, Ian Welland and Siegfried Selberherr "Complex Systems in Phase Space" Entropy 22(10), 1103 (2020).

Ian Welland and David K. Ferry "Wavepacket phase-space quantum Monte Carlo method" J Comput Electron 20, 267–273 (2021).

Chapter 10: Bohmian trajectories

X. Oriols, "Quantum-trajectory approach to time-dependent transport in mesoscopic systems with electron-electron interactions" Phys. Rev. Lett., vol.98, 066803 (2007).

Chapter 11: Wigner function

Josef Weinbub, Mark Everitt & David K. Ferry "Special issue on Wigner functions in computational electronics and photonics" J Comput Electron 20, 2019 (2021)

Josef Weinbub and David K. Ferry "Recent Advances in Wigner Function Approaches" Applied Physics Reviews 5, 041104 (2018).

Ian Welland and David K. Ferry "Wigner functions in optoelectronics: Wave-packet phase-space Monte Carlo solver for waveguide-ring coupling" J. Appl. Phys. 128, 153102 (2020).

Josef Weinbub and Robert Kosik "Computational Perspective on Recent Advances in Quantum Electronics: From Electron Quantum Optics to Nanoelectronic Devices and Systems" Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 34, 163001 (2022).

Chapter 12: Monte Carlo solution of Non-equilibirum Green's functions

David K Ferry "Using ensemble Monte Carlo methods to evaluate non-equilibrium Green's functions" Semiconductor Science and Technology, Volume 38, Number 5, 38 055005 (2023).

David K Ferry "Using ensemble Monte Carlo methods to evaluate non-equilibrium Green's functions, II. Polar-optical phonons" Semiconductor Science and Technology, Volume 38, Number 7, 38 075001 (2023).