Programme

Friday 9 June

 

Session: Phonon Properties and Thermal Transport

Session chair: Dragica Vasileska, Arizona State University, USA

09:00

(Invited) Anderson-like localization of phonons in nano-structures
Yann Chalopin, Ecole Centrale Paris and CNRS, France

09:30

Thermionic cooling devices based on AlGaAs/GaAs heterostructures
Marc Bescond, CNRS IM2NP, France

09:45

DFT/NEGF study of discrete dopants in Si/GaAs 3D FETs including phonon scattering and self-heating
Antonio Martinez, Swansea University, UK

10:00

Numerical techniques for the reduction of thermal conductivity measurements at nanoscale
Giovanni Pennelli, University of Pisa, Italy

10:15

Thermal transport in III-V semiconductor materials and superlattices based on molecular dynamics with optimized Tersoff potentials
Irena Knezevic, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

10:30

Electron momentum relaxation rates via Frohlich interaction with polar-optical-phonons in bulk wurtzite gallium nitride
Michael Stroscio, , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

10:45

Refreshments and exhibition
Gallery Lounge

 

Session: Electronic Structure/First Principles Calculations

Session chair: Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University, USA

11:15

(Invited) Structural diversity of silicene'
Tetsuya Morishita, AIST, Japan

11:45

General atomistic approach for modeling metal-semiconductor interfaces and surfaces
Umberto Martinez, QuantumWise, Denmark

12:00

Non-equilibrium Green's function method: Band tail formation in non-local polar optical phonon scattering
Prasad Sarangapani, Purdue University, USA

12:15

Electronic structure calculation of SiGeSn-C alloys – prospective direct gap materials
Zoran Ikonic, University of Leeds, UK

12:30

The Formation of Frenkel Defect in Amorphous HfO2
Jack Strand, University College London, UK

12:45

Image charge models for accurate construction of the electrostatic self-energy of 3D layered nanostructure devices
John Barker, University of Glasgow, UK

13:00

Lunch and Close

Key dates

  • Abstract submission deadline (extended):
    24 January 2017
  • Early registration deadline:
    31 March 2017
  • Registration deadline:
    26 May 2017