2.4. Applications

This page lists all our benchmarks, tutorials, and pages describing models relevant for specific applications. Some sites may be found in more than one category as our examples are often quite general.

2.4.1. General

• 1D - pn Junction

2.4.2. Solar Cells

• General scheme of the optical device analysis

• 1D - Cascade solar cell (Tandem solar cell)

• 1D - GaAs Solar Cell

2.4.3. Laser Diodes & LEDs

• General scheme of the optical device analysis

• 1D - Optics: Optical gain of InGaAs quantum wells with different strain

• 1D - Optics: Optical gain and spontaneous emission rate of strained GaN quantum well

• 1D - Optical interband transitions in a quantum well - Matrix elements and selection rules

• 1D - UV LED: Quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of EBL

• 1D - UV LED: Quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of superlattice structure in p-region

• 1D - InGaAs Multi-quantum well laser diode

• 1D - Optical generation in InGaAs/GaAs QW

• 1D - Photoluminescence of Quantum Well

2.4.4. Photodetectors

• General scheme of the optical device analysis

• 1D - InAs / GaSb broken gap quantum well (BGQW) (type-II band alignment)

• 1D - Multiple quantum wells and finite superlattices

• 1D - Optical intraband transitions in a quantum well - Intraband matrix elements and selection rules

• 1D - Optical interband transitions in a quantum well - Matrix elements and selection rules

• 1D - Simple quantum cascade structure

• 1D - InAs / In0.4Ga0.6Sb superlattice dispersion with 8-band k.p (type-II band alignment)

• 1D - Intersubband transitions in InGaAs/AlInAs multiple quantum well systems

• 1D - SiGe QW excitonic absorption

• 1D - SiGe MQW QCSE electroabsorption modulator (EAM)

• 1D - Optical generation in InGaAs/GaAs QW

2.4.5. QCLs

• 1D - Optical intraband transitions in a quantum well - Intraband matrix elements and selection rules

• 1D - Quantum-Cascade Lasers

2.4.6. Transistors

• 1D - Schrödinger-Poisson - A comparison to the tutorial file of Greg Snider’s code

• 2D - MOS Capacitor & MOSFET

• 2D - Electron wave functions of a 2D slice of a Triple Gate MOSFET

• Two-dimensional electron gas in an AlGaN/GaN field effect transistor

• HEMT structure (High Electron Mobility Transistor)

• 1D - C-V curve calculation for general structures (Post-processing by python)

• Single-electron transistor - laterally defined quantum dot

2.4.7. Superlattices

• 1D - Multiple quantum wells and finite superlattices

• Dispersion in infinite superlattices: Minibands (Kronig-Penney model)

• 1D - InAs / In0.4Ga0.6Sb superlattice dispersion with 8-band k.p (type-II band alignment)

• 1D - Simple quantum cascade structure

• 1D - Quantum-Cascade Lasers

2.4.8. Quantum Wells

• 1D - Double Quantum Well

• 1D - Triangular well

• Parabolic Quantum Well (GaAs / AlAs)

• Energy dispersion of holes in a quantum well

• k.p dispersion of an unstrained GaN QW embedded between strained AlGaN layers

• Si/SiGe MODQW (Modulation Doped Quantum Well)

• Scattering times for electrons in unbiased and biased single and multiple quantum wells

• 1D - Optical intraband transitions in a quantum well - Intraband matrix elements and selection rules

• 1D - Optical interband transitions in a quantum well - Matrix elements and selection rules

• 1D - Exciton Binding Energy in an Infinite Quantum Well

• 1D - SiGe MQW QCSE electroabsorption modulator (EAM)

• 1D - Exciton absorption in infinite quantum well

2.4.9. Quantum Wires

• 2D - Electron wave functions in a cylindrical well (2D Quantum Corral)

• Energy dispersion of a cylindrical shaped GaN nanowire

• 2D - Interband absorption of a GaAs cylindrical quantum wire

• 2D - Intersubband absorption of a GaAs cylindrical quantum wire

• 3D - Transmission through a nanowire (CBR)

2.4.10. Quantum Dots

• 3D - Quantum Dot Molecule

• Energy levels in idealistic 3D cubic and cuboidal shaped quantum dots

• Energy levels in a pyramidal shaped InAs/GaAs quantum dot including strain and piezoelectric fields

• 3D - Absorption of a GaAs spherical quantum dot

2.4.11. 2DEGs

• 1D - Schrödinger-Poisson - A comparison to the tutorial file of Greg Snider’s code

• 1D - Transmission (CBR)

• 3D - Depletion of electrons in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG)

• 3D - Conductance of a quantum point contact (gated two-dimensional electron gas)

• 2D - Electron Flying Qubit

• HEMT structure (High Electron Mobility Transistor)

• Single-electron transistor - laterally defined quantum dot

• Si/SiGe MODQW (Modulation Doped Quantum Well)

• Two-dimensional electron gas in an AlGaN/GaN field effect transistor

• 1D - C-V curve calculation for general structures (Post-processing by python)

2.4.12. Magnetic Field

• 2D - Fock-Darwin states of a parabolic, anisotropic (elliptical) potential in a magnetic field

• 2D - Fock-Darwin states of parabolic, isotropic potential in a magnetic field

• 2D - Landau levels of a bulk GaAs sample in a magnetic field

2.4.13. Nitrides

• 1D - Piezoelectricity in wurtzite

• k.p dispersion in bulk unstrained, compressively and tensely strained GaN (wurtzite)

• k.p dispersion of an unstrained GaN QW embedded between strained AlGaN layers

• 1D - Interband tunneling current in a highly-doped nitride heterojunction

• 1D - UV LED: Quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of superlattice structure in p-region

• 1D - UV LED: Quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of EBL

• Two-dimensional electron gas in an AlGaN/GaN field effect transistor

• Energy dispersion of a cylindrical shaped GaN nanowire

• 1D - Optics: Optical gain and spontaneous emission rate of strained GaN quantum well

• 1D - Optics: Optical gain and spontaneous emission rate of strained GaN quantum well