Knezevic, Irena

simulation of electronic and optoelectronic semiconductor devices; thermal transport and semiconductor-based thermoelectrics
quantum transport theory: decoherence in nanostructures, transient and high-frequency behavior of nanostructures
quantum information

Publications

Up-to-date list of publications with links to individual papers can be found under Publications on the NTG website.
E. B. Ramayya, D. Vasileska, S. M. Goodnick, and I. Knezevic, "Electron Transport in Silicon Nanowires: The Role of Acoustic Phonon Confinement and Surface Roughness Scattering," Journal of Applied Physics, in press (2008).
X. Gao, M. D' Souza, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic, "Design and optimization of a GaAs-based sub-7-um quantum cascade laser based on multivalley Monte Carlo simulation", Optical and Quantum Electronics, in press (2008).
I. Knezevic, "Decoherence due to contacts in ballistic nanostructures," Physical Review B 77, 125301 (2008).
X. Gao, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic, "Phonon confinement and electron transport in GaAs-based quantum cascade structures," Journal of Applied Physics 103, 073101 (2008).
E. B. Ramayya, D. Vasileska, S. M. Goodnick, and I. Knezevic, "Cross-sectional dependence of electron mobility and lattice thermal conductivity in silicon nanowires," Journal of Computational Electronics 7, in press (2008).
X. Gao, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic, "Confined phonon scattering in multivalley Monte Carlo simulation of quantum cascade lasers," Journal of Computational Electronics 7, in press (2008).
I. Knezevic, "Contact-induced decoherence in nanodevices," Journal of Computational Electronics 7, in press (2008).
X. Gao, M. D' Souza, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic, "Design and simulation of deep-well GaAs-based quantum cascade lasers for 6.7 um room-temperature operation," Journal of Applied Physics 102, 113107 (2007).
G. J. Meyer, N. L. Dias, R. H. Blick, and I. Knezevic, "Magnetotransport in non-planar SiGe/Si nanomembranes, IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 6, 446-450 (2007).
I. Knezevic, "Decoherence and quantum transport in nanodevices," Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 4, 749-760 (2007).
G. J. Meyer and I. Knezevic, "Simulation of high-field magnetotransport in non-planar 2D electron systems," Journal of Computational Electronics 6, 219-222 (2007).
X. Gao, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic, "Monte Carlo modeling of X-valley leakage in quantum cascade lasers," Journal of Computational Electronics6, 305-308 (2007).
X. Gao, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic, "X-valley leakage in GaAs-based mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers: a Monte Carlo study," Journal of Applied Physics 101, 063101 (2007).
E.B. Ramayya, D.Vasileska, S.M. Goodnick, and I. Knezevic, "Electron mobility in silicon nanowires," IEEE Trans. Nanotechnology 6, 113 (2007).
X. Gao, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic, "X valley leakage in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum cascade lasers," Applied Physics Letters 89, 191119 (2006).
P. P. Zhang, E. P. Nordberg, B.-N. Park, G. Celler, I. Knezevic, P. G. Evans. M. A. Eriksson, and M. G. Lagally, "Electrical conductivity in silicon nanomembranes," New Journal of Physics 8, 200 (2006).
P. Zhang, E. Tevaarwerk, B.-N. Park, D. E. Savage, G. Celler, I. Knezevic, P. G. Evans, M. A. Eriksson, and M. G. Lagally, "Electronic Transport in Nanometer-Scale Silicon-on-Insulator Membranes," Nature 439, 703 (2006).
I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry, "A quantum many-body density matrix model for sub-femtosecond transport in mesoscopic structures," Journal of Computational Electronics 3, 359-362 (2004).
I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry, "Open system evolution and "memory dressing"," Physical Review A 69, 012104 (2004). (Also selected for the February 9th, 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology and the February 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Quantum Information).
I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry, "Open-system nonequilibrium Green�s functions and quantum transport in the transient regime," Semiconductor Science and Technology 19, S220 (2004).
I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry, "What mesoscopic structures really "remember": insufficiency of the open boundary approximation", Superlattices and Microstructures 34, 367 (2003).
D. K. Ferry, R. Akis, J. P. Bird, M. Elhassan, I. Knezevic, C. Prasad, and A. Shailos, "Generalized interfaces," Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 21, 1891 (2003).
I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry, "Quantum transport and memory effects in mesoscopic structures," Physica E 19, 71 (2003).
I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry, "Memory effects and nonequilibrium transport in open many-particle quantum systems", Physical Review E 67, 066122 (2003). (Also selected for the July 14th, 2003 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology).
I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry, "Partial-trace-free time-convolutionless equation of motion for the reduced density matrix", Physical Review E 66, 016131 (2002).
I. Knezevic, D. Vasileska, and D. K. Ferry, "Impact of Strong Quantum Confinement on the Performance of a Highly Asymmetric Device Structure: Monte Carlo Particle-Based Simulation of a Focused-Ion-Beam MOSFET", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 49, 1019 (2002).
D. Vasileska, I. Knezevic, R. Akis, S. Ahmed, and D. K. Ferry, "The Role of Quantum Effects on the Operation of 50 nm MOSFETs, 250 nm FIBMOS Devices and Narrow-Width SOI Device Structures", Journal of Computational Electronics 1, 453 (2002).
I. Knezevic, D. Vasileska, X. He, D. K. Schroder and D. K. Ferry, "Low-Field Mobility and Quantum Effects in Asymmetric Silicon-Based Field-Effect Devices", Journal of Computational Electronics 1, 273 (2002).
D. Vasileska, R. Akis, I. Knezevic, S. N. Milicic;, S. S. Ahmed and D. K. Ferry, "The Role of Quantization Effects in the Operation of Ultrasmall MOSFETs and SOI Device Structures", Microelectronic Engineering 63, 233 (2002).
I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry, "Evolution of the reduced density matrix: a generalized projection-operator approach", Microelectronic Engineering 63, 105 (2002).
I. Knezevic, D. Vasileska, R. Akis, J. Kang, X. He and D. K. Schroder, "Monte Carlo particle-based simulation of FIBMOS: impact of strong quantum confinement on device performance", Physica B 314, 386 (2002).
I. Knezevic and Z. Radovic, "Quasiparticle Excitation Spectrum of an Isolated Vortex in a High-Temperature Superconductor", Physica C 318, 640 (1999).
I. Knezevic and Z. Radovic, "Bound States in the Vortex Core", Solid State Phenomena 61-2, 261 (1998).

Selected Awards, Honors and Societies

Gerald Holdridge Excellence in Teaching Award 2008
Best Student Paper Award (as advisor) at the 7th International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD '07), University of Delaware, Delaware, 24 - 27 September, 2007.
NSF CAREER Award 2006
Palais' Outstanding Doctoral Student Award (for academic year 2004-2005), Department of Electrical Engineering, Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University, March 2005.
Graduate Academic Scholar (GAS) scholarship, Arizona State University, 2001-2003
Member of the IEEE and APS

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