Getting Started

See the First Steps in our main documentation to learn how to obtain and install the software.

Below you can find basic tutorials introducing the most important elements of nextnano++ syntax as well as fundamental concepts hidden behind them. We are continuously working on including new tutorials here sou you can learn nextnano++ easier.

First Steps

• Input file basics
• Hello world

Defining Structures

• Finite periodic structures
• Constant doping
• Adding and replacing doping
• Doping functions
• Doping in heterostructure
• Variables
• Importing files
• Defining shapes in 2D and 3D simulations

Alloys

• Interpolation of 2-component alloys

Boundary Conditions

• Schottky barrier
• Surface charges

Strain

• Band gap of strained AlGaInP on GaAs substrate

Electrostatics and Strain

• Solution of the Poisson equation for different charge density profiles
• Piezo- and Pyroelectric charges in GaN/AlN/GaN wurtzite heterostructure
• Piezoelectricity in wurtzite

Currents

• Electron transport in n-type silicon
• I–V characteristics of n-doped Si structure
• I–V characteristics of n-doped GaN single layer
• n-i-n Si resistor