ECE Distinguished Seminar Series: Gerhard Klimeck, Purdue University
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ECE Distinguished Seminar Series
Sponsored by the IEEE EDS/ Photonics Chapter Distinguished Lecturer Program
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
3:00 pm, HYBRID in-person/remote
260 Dreese Lab (Zoom w/ Pre-regist)
Speaker:
Gerhard Klimeck , Purdue
Fellow IEEE, APS, IOP, AAAS, and Humboldt Foundation
Semiconductor workforce development through immersive simulations on nanoHUB.org
Abstract: Over 160,000 nanoHUB users have run over 7 million simulations in Apps mostly focused on semiconductor devices and materials modeling. nanoHUB created nano-Apps before Apple created Apps for the iPhone and made scientific codes usable for a much larger user group. Most scientific tools strive to be comprehensive in solving “any” simulation problem in a specific problem range. That comprehensiveness limits the use to experts, who require extensive training. nanoHUB has instead focused on delivering a spectrum of Apps (over 700 now) that individually have a limited capability such as a single crystals, PN-junction, MOSFET, or nanowire while the underlying tool could of course solve a much wider set of problems. We assembled some of these Apps that are essential for specific courses into small sets such as ABACUS (crystals, bandstructure, drift-diffusion, pn-junctions, BJTs, MOScaps, MOSFETs) [1]. The usability results are stunning. Our user analytics prove that over half of the simulation users participate in structured education through homework/project assignments. We can identify classroom sizes and detailed tool usage [2,3]. We can begin to build mind-maps of design explorations and assess depth of explorations for individuals and classes. While parts of academia struggled to innovate curricula, we have measured the median first-time App insertion into a class to be less than six months. Over 180 institutions have utilized nanoHUB in their curriculum innovation in over 3,600 clas- ses. 2 million nanoHUB visitors explore lectures and tutorials annually. With such a community presence we believe nanoHUB is the platform of choice to deliver online modeling, simulation, virtual environments, and lectures for the US initiative on workforce development [4].
Bio: Dr. Gerhard Klimeck is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University; Director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology; Reilly Director of the Center for Predictive Materials and Devices. He helped to create nano- HUB.org, the largest virtual nanotechnology user facility serving over 2.0 million global users, annually. Dr. Klimeck is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Ameri- can Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the German Humboldt Foundation. He has published over 525 printed scientific articles; he has been recognized for his co-invention of a single-atom transistor, quantum mechanical modeling theory, and simulation tools. His NEMO5 software has been used since 2015 at Intel to design nano-scaled design transistors. The nanoHUB team was recently recognized by a top 100 by R&D award - Making simulation and data pervasive.
Hosted by: Paul R. Berger (ECE) and Wolfgang Windl (MSE)