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The Modeling and Simulation technical committee focuses on topics associated with the formulation, development and use of theoretical models for the understanding and design of nanotechnological systems for engineering applications in a wide spectrum of human society. For this purpose, it addresses technical issues related to the development of numerical codes requiring basic software as well as large-scale computational resources such as density functional theory, tight binding methods, self-consistent Poisson-Schrödinger solver, Monte Carlo simulation, non-equilibrium green function techniques, molecular dynamics to name a few. Among the current and latest topics of investigation are modeling of nanoscale electronic and photonic devices and systems, advanced devices made of new low-dimensionality materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides, spintronic devices and bio-nanoelectronic devices for molecular manipulation and sensing.
Schematic of a Graphene field effect membrane Transistor containing a nanopore for DNA sequencing (after
Anuj Girdhar, Chaitanya Sathe, Klaus Schulten and Jean-Pierre Leburton, PNAS, 110 (42) pp.1648-1653 (2013))
(Submitted by Jean-Pierre Leburton, posted by Yonhua Tzeng)