The COMputational nanoelectronICS (COMICS) research group is part of the Nanoelectronics Department at the Institut d”Electronique Fondamentale (IEF) [Satellite view], a laboratory jointly operated by the CNRS and Université Paris-Sud, and located on the Orsay campus of the university.

Our Skills Physics of nanodevices: out-of-equilibrium transport, quantum effects... Development of modelling tools: particle Monte Carlo simulator, band structures, atomistic Non Equilibrium Green Function simulator. New device concepts.

Main research topics Nanoelectronics: beyond CMOS devices on Silicon or III-V heterostructures, quantum dots and graphene based devices. Thermoelectrics: Nanoscale heat transport, coupled electron/phonon transport and thermoelectric devices for energy harvesting. Nanoarchitecture: novel design approaches for low power computation using artificial synapses. More info...

Contact: Jerome Saint-Martin or Philippe Dollfus

Keywords: Simulation, Monte Carlo, NEGF, nanoelectronics, thermoelectrics, graphene, Wigner, Boltzmann, MOS, transistor, resonant tunneling diode (RTD), neural network, synapse, bioinspired.