For more information check the webpage of our
Modeling and Simulation Group!

Our group is actively involved in the following areas. Check our publications page for more details about each of these areas.

Nanoelectronics:

• Computational nanoelectronics (check our software development project RandFlux)

• Nanoscale semiconductor device physics and modeling (including heterojunctions, CNT, graphene)

• Redesign and optimization of nanoscale devices (doping fluctuations resistant structures, numerical optimization techniques)

• Analysis of random doping and random geometrical lengths induced effects in ultrasmall (nanoscale) semiconductor devices; noise and fluctuations of threshold voltages, currents and frequency characteristics of semiconductor devices

• Noise and mismatch in semiconductor devices

• Calibration and testing of various quantum mechanical models of semiconductor devices

• Design tradeoffs in conventional semiconductor devices

• Nanobelt and nanowire chemical sensors

Power electronics:

• Modeling and design of power electronic devices including vertical and horizontal FETs, IGBTs, etc.

• Techniques for the optimization of the breakdown voltage and on-state resistance in power devices (using a novel sensitivity function approach)

• Power grid simulations

Energy storage devices:

• Modeling and simulation of energy storage devices including Lithium batteries (Li-ion, Li-air, etc.) and fuel cells etc.

• Design of high power density and specific capacity of batteries based on sensitivity analysis approach

Magnetism and magnetic materials:

• Computational nanoelectronics (check our software development project HysterSoft)

• Mathematical/phenomenological models of hysteresis: Preisach model, Energetic model, Jiles-Atherton model, Hodgdon model

• Noise passage and fluctuations in hysteretic systems

• Thermal relaxation in magnetic nano and macrosystems

• Vectorial models of hysteresis. First and higher reversal-curve analysis

• Imaging techniques for magnetic recording media

• Losses and magnetization processes in ferrites and magnetic materials

• Micromagnetism, ferromagnetic resonance in thin films

• Material characterization

Computational electromagnetics:

• Fast multipole methods (FMM) applied in magnetism

• Electromagnetic scattering problems

• Modeling and simulation of nonlinear electromagnetic systems