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Development of Modern, Free and Open Source Modeling Software for Nanoelectronics with Exotic Quantum Materials

This capstone project introduces an open-source software package dedicated to the modeling of incoherent quantum systems and nanoelectronic devices utilizing emerging quantum materials. The package is designed to advance the simulation of complex electron physics in novel nanotechnologies such as 2D transistors and graphene, optionally with applied magnetic or exchange fields, using the Non-equilibrium Green's function methodology for calculating conductances and self-interaction effects. Additionally, desired observables such as the real-space electron densities, density of states, and band structures can be calculated and automatically visualized with an integrated plotting library. Accompanying this software is a website aiming to simplify user experience by including documentation and various integrations that allow users to effortlessly run and visualize outputs of the package directly in the browser. By making this tool open-source, we invite developers and researchers to utilize and contribute to our software, potentially leading to breakthroughs in condensed matter physics, computing, sensors, and other critical technologies.

Team Members:

Ta-Lin Chen
Yasir Habib
Jan Steinhaeur
Rifah Tasnim
Som Wakdikar
Ken Zhang

Sponsors
Sandia National Laboratories
Semester