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Efficient Algorithms for the Green’s Function Formalism

Semiconductor Transport Simulations on CPUs and GPUs

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We present efficient implementations of the non-equilibrium Green’s function method for numeric simulations of transport in semiconductor nanostructures. The algorithms are implemented on CPUs and GPUs using LabVIEW 2011 64-Bit together with the Multicore Analysis and Sparse Matrix Toolkit and the GPU Analysis Toolkit.

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This work was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft via GK 1286 and Me916/11-1, the City of Hamburg via the Center of Excellence “Nanospintronics”, the Office of Naval Research via ONR-N00014110780, and the National Science Foundation by NSF-MRSEC DMR-0820414, NSFDMR-1105512, NHARP

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  1. Institute of Applied Physics, University of Hamburg, Jungiusstraße 11,, 22359, Hamburg, Germany

    Jan Jacob

  2. PHYSnet Computing Center, University of Hamburg, Jungiusstraße 9,, 22359, Hamburg, Germany

    Bodo Krause-Kyora

  3. National Instruments, 11500 N Mopac Expwy, Austin, TX, 78759-3504, USA

    Lothar Wenzel, Qing Ruan & Darren Schmidt

  4. Physics Department, Texas A&M University, 4242 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843-4242, USA

    Vivek Amin & Jairo Sinova

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Jacob, J. et al. (2013). Efficient Algorithms for the Green’s Function Formalism. In: Yang, GC., Ao, SI., Huang, X., Castillo, O. (eds) IAENG Transactions on Engineering Technologies. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 186. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5651-9_2

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