clear all; % Physical constants in MKS units hbar = 1.054e-34; q = 1.602e-19; % Energy parameters in eV; included are the single-electron charging % energy U0; the kBT product; the equilibrium Fermi level mu; and the % energy level cal_E, which is short-form for "calligraphic E" % Please especially note that ALL ENERGY VARIABLES IN THIS CODE % ARE IN eV (NOT joules); the equations from class must be adjusted % accordingly, multiplying or dividing appropriate terms by a factor of q U0 = 0.25; kBT = 0.025; mu = 0; cal_E = 0.2; % Capacitance parameters alpha_G = 0.5; alpha_D = 0.5; alpha_S = 1 - alpha_G - alpha_D; % Energy grid in eV, from -1 eV to 1 eV NE = 501; E = linspace(-1,1,NE); dE = E(2) - E(1); % Gamma parameters, in eV gamma_1 = 0.005; gamma_2 = 0.005; gamma = gamma_1 + gamma_2; % Lorentzian density of states, normalized so that its integral is unity D = (gamma/(2*pi))./((E-cal_E).^2+(gamma/2)^2); D = D./(dE*sum(D)); % Reference number of electrons in the channel, assumed to be zero in % this code N0 = 0; % Voltage values to consider for the final plots NV = 101; VV = linspace(0,1,NV); dV = VV(2) - VV(1); % Loop over voltage values and compute number of electrons and current % for each voltage value in a self-consistent manner for count = 1:NV % Set terminal voltages VG = 0; VD = VV(count); VS = 0; % Values of mu1 and mu2; notice that the usual factor of q multiplying % the voltages is omitted, because in this code, energy is in eV mu1 = mu - VS; mu2 = mu - VD; % Value of Laplace potential in eV UL = - (alpha_G*VG) - (alpha_D*VD) - (alpha_S*VS); % Initial value of Poisson part in eV UP = 0; % Iterate until self-consistent potential is achieved by monitoring % the Poisson part (the Laplace part does not change) dUP = 1; while dUP > 1e-6 % Compute source and drain Fermi functions f1 = 1./(1+exp((E + UL + UP - mu1)./kBT)); f2 = 1./(1+exp((E + UL + UP - mu2)./kBT)); % Compute number of channel electrons N(count) = dE*sum( ((gamma_1/gamma).*f1 + (gamma_2/gamma).*f2).*D ); % Newly calculated Poisson part of self-consistent potential UPnew = U0*( N(count) - N0 ); % Change in Poisson part between iterations dUP = abs(UP - UPnew); %New guess for next iteration, found by adding a fraction of the %difference between iterations to the old guess UP = UP + 0.1*(UPnew - UP); end % Compute the current in A after the self-consistent potential % has been achieved; notice the extra factor of q preceding the % equation, which is needed since the gammas are in eV I(count) = q*(q/hbar)*(gamma_1*gamma_2)/(gamma)*dE*sum((f1-f2).*D); end % Plotting commands, including lines to modify the linewidth % and Fontsize, just to make the plots look nicer; you don’t % need to worry about how these work figure(1); h = plot(VV,N,'k'); grid on; set(h,'linewidth',[2.0]); set(gca,'Fontsize',[18]); xlabel('DRAIN VOLTAGE [V]'); ylabel('NUMBER OF ELECTRONS'); figure(2); h = plot(VV,I,'k'); grid on; set(h,'linewidth',[2.0]); set(gca,'Fontsize',[18]); xlabel('DRAIN VOLTAGE [V]'); ylabel('CURRENT [A]');