Semiconductor Nanostructure Modeling

Award Information

Agency: Department of Defense

Branch: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency

Contract: N/A

Agency Tracking Number: 35650

Amount: $84,981.00

Phase: Phase I

Program: SBIR

Solicitation Topic Code: N/A

Solicitation Number: N/A

Timeline

Solicitation Year: N/A

Award Year: 1997

Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): N/A

Award End Date (Contract End Date): N/A

Small Business Information

QUANTUM SEMICONDUCTOR ALGORITHMS, INC.

5 Hawthorne Circle

Northborough, MA 01532

United States

DUNS: N/A

HUBZone Owned: No

Woman Owned: No

Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No

Principal Investigator

Name: Sita Ram-mohan
Phone: (508) 393-7870

Business Contact

Phone: () -

Research Institution

N/A

Abstract

We propose the development of commercial software for the modeling of electronic, optical and opto-electronic properties of quantum semiconductor heterostructures. The work over Phase 1 will provide electronic bandstructure modeling using the finite element method and full-zone tight-binding computation of electronic states in multiple quantum wells, wires, and dots. Any of the Group III-V or II-VI compound semiconductors and Group IV elemental semiconductors can be included in the structure, with effects of strain due to lattice mismatch, and externally applied fields being accounted for in the modeling. The software will employ sparse-matrix methods in C++, and progress will be made towards parallel processing. Initial groundwork will be laid for the calculation of optical waveguiding in heterostructures as an integral part of the modeling environment.

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Semiconductor Nanostructure Modeling