Marian Damiano, Marin Enrique G, Perucchini Marta, Iannaccone Giuseppe, Fiori Gianluca
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università di Pisa, Via G. Caruso 16, 16122 Pisa, Italy.
Departmento de Electrónica, Universidad de Granada, Avenida Fuente Nueva s/n, 18071 Granada, Spain.
J Comput Electron. 2023;22(5):1327-1337. doi: 10.1007/s10825-023-02048-2. Epub 2023 Jun 5.
NanoTCAD ViDES (Versatile DEvice Simulator) is an open-source suite of computing codes aimed at assessing the operation and the performance of nanoelectronic devices. It has served the computational nanoelectronic community for almost two decades and it is freely available to researchers around the world in its website (http://vides.nanotcad.com), being employed in hundreds of works by many electronic device simulation groups worldwide. We revise the code structure and its main modules and we present the new features directed towards (i) multi-scale approaches exploiting ab-initio electron-structure calculations, aiming at the exploitation of new physics in electronic devices, (ii) the inclusion of arbitrary heterostructures of layered materials to devise original device architectures and operation, and (iii) the exploration of novel low-cost, green technologies in the mesoscopic scale, as, e.g. printed electronics.
NanoTCAD ViDES（通用器件模拟器）是一套开源计算代码套件，旨在评估纳米电子器件的运行情况和性能。它已经为计算纳米电子学界服务了近二十年，世界各地的研究人员都可以在其网站（http://vides.nanotcad.com）上免费获取，全球许多电子器件模拟团队在数百项研究中都使用了它。我们修订了代码结构及其主要模块，并展示了针对以下方面的新特性：（i）利用从头算电子结构计算的多尺度方法，旨在探索电子器件中的新物理现象；（ii）纳入层状材料的任意异质结构，以设计新颖的器件架构和运行方式；（iii）在介观尺度上探索新型低成本绿色技术，例如印刷电子技术。
