Doctoral Thesis Awarded
Shaikh Shahid Ahmed, December 2004
"Modeling Quantum and Coulomb Effects in Nanoscale Devices"
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), D.K. Ferry, D.K. Schroder, C. Ringhofer, S. Goodnick
Santhosh Krishnan, December 2005
"Band-Structure and Detailed Quantum Effects on Hole Transport In p-Channel MOSFETs"
Committee: D. Vasileska, M. V. Fischetti (Co-Chairs), D. Ferry, D. Schroder, S. Goodnick
Tarik Khan, May 2006
Modeling Si MESFETs
Committee: D. Vasileska, T. Thornton (Co-Chairs), D. Ferry, S. Goodnick, D. Schroder
Hasanur Rahman Khan December 2007
“3D CBR Method for Modeling FinFET devices”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), D. Mamaluy(Co-Chair), S.M. Goodnick, D.K. Ferry and D.K. Schroder
Katerina Raleva June 2008
“Thermal Effects in Nanoscale FD-SOI Devices”
Graduated from UKIM, Skopje, Macedonia where D. Vasileska is Adjunct Professor.
Ashwin Ashok, December 2008
Modeling of GaN HEMTs
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), O. Hartin, S. Goodnick, D. K. Ferry and D. Mamaluy
Arif Hossain, May 2011
“Self-Heating Effects in Nanowire Transistors
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. Ahmed, S. Goodnick and B. Bakkaloglu
Nabil Ashraf, November 2011
Comparative Analysis of Simulation of Trap Induced Threshold Voltage Fluctuations for 45 nm Gate Length n- MOSFET and Analytical Model Predictions
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. M. Goodnick, D. K. Schroder and M. Goryll
Balaji Padmanabhan, April 2013
Modeling Reliability of Gallium Nitride High Electron Mobility Transistors
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. M. Goodnick, Terry L. Alford and Prasad Venkatraman
Da Guo, October 2017
Modeling of Copper Migration in CdTe Photovoltaic Devices
Committee: Dragica Vasileska (chair), Mariana Bertoni, Stephen Goodnick, and Igor Sankin
Yi Fang, November 2017, Physics
Simulation of High Temperature InGaN Photovoltaic Devices
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. M. Goodnick (Co-chair), F. Ponce and R. Nemanich
Gokula Kannan Jayaram Thulasingam, November 2017
The Role of the Collisional Broadening of the States ont he Low-Field Mobility in Silicon Inversion Layers
Committee: Dragica Vasileska (chair), David Allee, David Ferry, and Stephen Goodnick
Pradyumna Muralidharan, August 2019
“Multiscale Modeling of Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells”
Committee: Dragica Vasileska (co-chair), Stephen M. Goodnick (co-chair), C. Hornsberg and C. Ringhofer
Abdul Rawoof Shaik, December 2019
“A Unified 2D Solver for Modeling Carrier and Defect Dynamics in Electronic and Photovoltaic Devices”
Committee: Dragica Vasileska (chair), Igor Sankin, Christian Ringhofer, Daniel Brinkman, Stephen Goodnick and Mariana Bertoni
Robin Daugherty, December 2019
“Multiscale Modeling of Thermal and Electrical Characteristics in Silicon CMOS Devices”
Committee: Dragica Vasileska (chair), Stephen Goodnick, David K. Ferry and James Aberle
Master Thesis Awarded
Srdjan Milicic, May 2000
"3D Modeling of Silicon Quantum Dots"
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S.M. Goodnick and D.K. Ferry
Xiao Jiang He, May 2000
"Two-Dimensional Monte Carlo Simulations of Ultra-Small MOSFETs"
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S.M. Goodnick and D.K. Ferry
Gil Speyer, May 2001
"Solving the Three-Dimensional Poisson Equation for Semiconductor Device Modeling Using Multigrid Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods"
Committee: D. Vasileska (chair), S.M. Goodnick and D.K. Ferry
Salvador Gonzalez, December 2001
"Empirical Pseudopotential method for the Band Structure Calculation of Strained Si1-xGex Materials"
Committee: D. Vasileska (chair), S.M. Goodnick and A. Demkov
Shaikh Shahid Ahmed, December 2002
"Modeling of silicon on insulator devices"
Committee: D. Vasileska (chair), S.M. Goodnick and D.K. Ferry
Santhosh Krishnan, December 2003
“Low field hole mobility in strained silicon-germanium pMOS devices”
Committee: D. Vasileska (chair), S.M. Goodnick and D.K. Ferry
Anand Mannargudi, May 2004
“Investigation of deep submicrometer asymmetric device structure”
Committee: D. Vasileska (chair), D.K. Ferry and D.K. Schroder
Sumeet Kaur, August 2004
"Online Device Simulation Lab (ODSL) at Arizona State University"Committee:
D.Vasileska (Chair), S.M. Goodnick, H. Cam
Ashwin Ashok, May 2005"
Spontaneous Spin Polarization in GaAs/AlxGa1-xAs Split-Gate Heterostructures"Committee:
D. Vasileska (Chair), D.K. Ferry, S. Goodnick
Edwin Ramayya, December 2005
"Modeling of Electron Mobility in a Rectangular Silicon Nanowire Transistor"
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. Goodnick, R. Akis
Prathibha Ramaprasad, November 2006
“A Framework for Modeling Protein Ion Channels”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. Goodnick and D. Mamaluy
Gordana Stojanovic, May 2007
“Modeling GaAs/AlGaAs HEMTs”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. Goodnick and O. Hartin (Freescale)
Balaji Padmanabhan, November 2008
“3D Modeling of Solar Cells”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), D. Schroder and D. Mamaluy
Gokula Kannan, April 2010
“SCHRED Second Generation”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), D. K. Schroder and S. M. Goodnick
Raghuraj Hathwar, June 2011
“Generalized Monte Carlo Tool for Investigating Low-Field and High Field Properties of Materials Using Non-parabolic Band Structure Model”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), M. Saraniti and S. M. Goodnick
Pradyumna Muralidharan, July 2011
“1-D Modeling of HgCdTe Photodetectors Operated at Low Temperatures”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), Y.-H. Zhang and P. Wijewarnasuriya (ARL)
Manan L. Gada, January 2013
“Modeling of Self-Heating Effects in 25nm SOI Devices”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. M. Goodnick and D. K. Ferry
Da Guo, April 2013
“One-Dimensional Fast Transient Simulator for Modeling CdS/CdTe Solar Cells”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. M. Goodnick and I. Sankin (First Solar)
Suleman Sami Qazi, November 2013
“Electrical and Thermal Transport in Alternative Device Technologies”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. M. Goodnick (Co-chair) and M. Tao
Xinchen Guo, April 2015,
School for Engineering of Mater, Transport and Energy
"Algebraic Multigrid Poisson Equation Solver”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. M. Goodnick and D. K. Ferry
Seung Kyung Yoo, November 2015
“The Phonon Monte Carlo Simulation “
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. M. Goodnick and D. K. Ferry
Daniel Livingston, November 2015, Applied Project (Physics Department)
“Modeling of Ge Transistors”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. Lindsay, Jingyue Liu
Abdul Rawoof Shaik, April 2016
“Multi-Scale study of Heat Transfer Using Monte Carlo Technique for Phonon Transport”
Committee: D. Vasileska (Chair), S. M. Goodnick and D. K. Ferry
Akash Anilkumar Laturia, December 2016
Title: Equilibrium Analysis of DG SOI MOSFET
Committee: Dr. Dragica Vasileska (Chair) Dr. Stephen Goodnick, Dr. David Ferry
Atreyo Mukherjee, November 2017
A Study of Hole Transport in Amorphous Selenium Using Bulk Monte Carlo Techniques
Dragica Vasileska (co-chair), Amirhossein Goldan (co-chair), and Stephen Goodnick
Viswanathan Naveen Kumar, November 2017
Mobility modeling of gallium nitride nanowire
Committee: Dragica Vasileska (chair), Yuji Zhao, and Stephen Goodnick
Andrew Warren, May 2019
Simulation of GaN CAVETs in Silvaco Atlas
Committee: Dragica Vasileska (chair), Stephen Goodnick and Yuji Zhao
