Theory, Modeling, and Simulation of Emerging Electronics

This project is an AoE funded project evolving 6 task groups. In this project, we strive to develop a suite of multi-scale electronic design automation (EDA) tools ranging from atomistic simulation methods to circuit simulators and to electromagnetic solvers for electrical signals for emerging sub-22nm technology. With these tools, we will study the sub-22nm devices and their systems; and calculate their physical and dynamical properties, and explore the possible paradigm shifts of next generation electronics. Our objectives are specifically listed below (among which task 1 and task 3 will be undertaken by our group):
1. To simulate from first-principles the electrical properties and processes of sub-22nm devices with atomistic details
2. To investigate lithography modeling, and to employ efficient electromagnetic solvers to simulate electrical signals, power delivery, crosstalk, interference, and noise in multi-scale complex integrated circuits
3. To calculate and model the electrical, chemical and mechanical properties of new materials for sub-22nm technology
4. To develop modeling tools for the emerging spintronics and magnetic random access memory (MRAM)
5. To use electron beam lithography technology to fabricate the sub-22nm devices for measurement and calibration of the parameters in our EDA tools
6. To develop a set of multi-scale EDA tools for emerging devices and integrated circuits