Gerhard Klimeck Explained

Gerhard Klimeck
Birth Date:	15 March 1966^[1]
Birth Place:	Essen, West Germany
Nationality:	American, German
Field:	Electrical engineering Electron transport Quantum mechanics
Work Institutions:	Purdue University University of Texas at Dallas California Institute of Technology
Alma Mater:	Ruhr University Bochum Purdue University
Known For:	Nanoelectronics, nanoHUB

Gerhard Klimeck is a German-American scientist and author in the field of nanotechnology.^[2] He is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

As the director of nanoHUB, he conducts the technical developments and strategies of nanoHUB, which annually serves million users worldwide with online simulations, tutorials, and seminars.^[3]

Education

Klimeck received his PhD. in 1994 from Purdue University where he studied electron transport through quantum dots, resonant tunneling diodes and 2-D electron gases. His German electrical engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in 1990 from Ruhr University Bochum was concerned with the study of laser noise propagation.^[4]

Career

Klimeck's research interest is in the modeling of nanoelectronic devices, parallel cluster computing, genetic algorithms, and parallel image processing. He has been driving the development of the Nanoelectronic Modeling Tool NEMO since 1994. Klimeck was the Technical Group Supervisor of the High Performance Computing Group and a Principal Scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.^[5] Previously, he was a member of technical staff at the Central Research Lab of Texas Instruments where he served as manager and principal architect of the Nanoelectronic Modeling (NEMO 1-D) program. At NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Purdue University, Klimeck developed the Nanoelectronic Modeling Tool (NEMO 3-D) for multi-million atom simulations.^[6]

Patents

• U.S. 6490193

Forming and storing data in a memory cell

• U.S. 6667490

Method and system for generating a memory cell

• U.S. Patent 2012/0043,607

Tunneling Field-Effect Transistor with Low Leakage Current

• U.S. patent No. 9,858,365: “Physical modeling of electronic devices/systems”, Ganesh Hegde, Yaohua Tan, Tillmann Kubis, Michael Povolotskyi, Gerhard Klimeck (2017)
• U.S. patent 10680088, “Tunnel Effect Transistor Having Anisotropic Effective Mass Channel”, Hesameddin Ilatikhameneh, Tarek Ameen, Bozidar Novakovic, Rajib Rahman, Gerhard Klimeck, 2020/6/9
• U.S. patent US11093667B2, “Method and system for realistic and efficient simulation of light emitting diodes having multi-quantum-wells”, Gerhard Klimeck, Tillmann Kubis, Junzhe Geng. (2022)

Books

• Computational Electronics: Semiclassical and Quantum Device Modeling and Simulation (with Dragica Vasileska and S. M. Goodnick, 2010) CRC Press, ^[7]

Honors and awards

• Klimeck won 9 NASA Tech Briefs from 2004 to 2007^[8]
• 2008, Purdue Engineering Team Award "For his role in the creation of nanoHUB and its impact on the cyberinfrastructure for the national nanotechnology initiative leading a cultural change in research and education." shared with Mark S. Lundstrom and Michael McLennan
• 2011, Elected Fellow Institute of Physics “For the development, application, and dissemination of atomistic quantum simulation tools for nanoelectronic devices.”^[9]
• 2011, Gordon Bell Prize Competition Finalist^[10]
• 2011, Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, citation: “For the development, application, and dissemination of atomistic quantum simulation tools for nanoelectronic devices.”^[11]
• 2012, Elected Fellow of the IEEE, citation: “for his contributions to atomistic quantum simulation tools for nanoelectronic devices”^[12]
• Klimeck and physicist Michelle Simmons of the University of New South Wales "devised a way to make a single-atom transistor", which ranked #29 top invention of 2013 by Discover Magazine^{[13] [14]}
• 2019, Humboldt Foundation Research Prize. Professor Klimeck is a leading expert in the modeling of nanoelectronics devices. He is well known internationally for building and defining the state-of-the-art in atomistic modeling theory and simulation tools for today's most advanced transistor devices. He also guides the technical developments and strategies of the site nanoHUB.org, which annually serves over 1.5 million users worldwide with online simulations, tutorials, and seminars. In Germany, he continues his research on atomic-scale semiconductor devices to explore new concepts in hybrid nanostructures.^[15]
• 2020, R&D 100 award winner in Software and Services category.  “Making simulation and data pervasive”, “nanoHUB: Democratizing Learning and Research”.  Award winners: Gerhard Klimeck, Alejandro Strachan, Lynn Zentner, Michael Zentner.^[16]
• 2020, Elected Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), ”For the quantum mechanical modeling theory and simulation tools to design today's nanotransistors and for leadership of the global nanotechnology community as Director of nanoHUB.”^[17]

Selected works

• Learning and research in the cloud^[18]
• A single-atom transistor^[19]
• Ohm's Law Survives to the Atomic Scale^[20]
• nanoHUB.org: Advancing Education and Research in Nanotechnology^[21]
• Development of a Nanoelectronic 3-D (NEMO 3-D) Simulator for Multimillion Atom Simulations and Its Application to Alloyed Quantum Dots (INVITED)^{[22] [23]}
• Quantum Device Simulation with a Generalized Tunneling Formula^[24]
• Conductance Spectroscopy in Coupled Quantum Dots^[25]

External links

• Profile of Gerhard Klimeck at Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Notes and References

1. Web site: Netlog . 2013-10-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029194917/http://en.netlog.com/gerhardklimeck . 2013-10-29 . dead .
2. Web site: Gerhard Klimeck - IEEE Xplore . . IEEE Xplore . 7 November 2020.
3. Web site: nanoHUB.org - Usage:Overview . nanoHUB . 26 March 2019 . usage.
4. Web site: Gerhard Klimeck \\ Group Leader \\ The Nanoelectronic Modeling Group \\ Purdue University . College of Engineering . af . 12 January 2022.
5. Web site: Nanoelectronic Modeling(NEMO):Moving from commercial grade 1-D simulation to prototype 3-D simulation . www.pe.titech.ac.jp . Tokyo Institute of Technology . 7 November 2020.
6. Klimeck . Gerhard . Nanoelectronic Modeling (NEMO): Moving from commercial grade 1-D simulation to prototype 3-D simulation . Aps March Meeting Abstracts . 1 March 2001 . X25.007 . 2001APS..MARX25007K . 7 November 2020.
7. Book: Computational electronics: Semiclassical and quantum device modeling and simulation . 7 November 2020.
8. Web site: Gerhard Klimeck \\ Purdue University . engineering.purdue.edu . 7 November 2020.
9. Web site: Professor Gerhard Klimeck elected Fellow of American Physical Society. . 2022-08-02 . Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Purdue University . en.
10. News: Nanoelectric Simulation Team Finalists for Gordon Bell Prize . 7 November 2020 . Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility.
11. Web site: APS Fellow Archive . 2022-08-02 . www.aps.org . en.
12. Web site: IEEE Fellows evaluated by NTC Fellow Evaluation Committee . 2022-08-02 . IEEE Nanotechnology Council . en-US.
13. News: Keats . Jonathon . 29. Single-Atom Transistor Created . 7 November 2020 . Discover Magazine . en.
14. Fuechsle . Martin . Miwa . Jill A. . Mahapatra . Suddhasatta . Ryu . Hoon . Lee . Sunhee . Warschkow . Oliver . Hollenberg . Lloyd C. L. . Klimeck . Gerhard . Simmons . Michelle Y. . A single-atom transistor . Nature Nanotechnology . April 2012 . 7 . 4 . 242–246 . 10.1038/nnano.2012.21 . 22343383 . 2012NatNa...7..242F . 14952278 . 7 November 2020 . en . 1748-3395.
15. Web site: Humboldt Research Award . 2022-08-02 . service.humboldt-foundation.de.
16. Web site: nanoHUB: Making simulation and data pervasive . 2022-08-02 . Research & Development World . en-US.
17. Web site: AAAS Announces Leading Scientists Elected as 2020 Fellows American Association for the Advancement of Science . 2022-08-02 . www.aaas.org . en.
18. Madhavan . Krishna . Zentner . Michael . Klimeck . Gerhard . Learning and research in the cloud . Nature Nanotechnology . November 2013 . 8 . 11 . 786–789 . 10.1038/nnano.2013.231 . 24202528 . 2013NatNa...8..786M . 7 November 2020 . en . 1748-3395.
19. Book: A Single-Atom Transistor . 7 November 2020.
20. Book: Ohm's Law Survives to the Atomic Scale . 7 November 2020.
21. Klimeck . Gerhard . McLennan . Michael . Brophy . Sean . Adams . George . Lundstrom . Mark . nanoHUB.org: Advancing Education and Research in Nanotechnology . Other Nanotechnology Publications . 1 October 2008 . 10 . 5 . 17 . 10.1109/MCSE.2008.120 . 2008CSE....10e..17K . 2020684 . 7 November 2020.
22. Klimeck . Gerhard . Oyafuso . Fabiano . Boykin . Timothy . Bowen . R. . Allmen . Paul von . Development of a Nanoelectronic 3-D (NEMO 3-D) Simulator for Multimillion Atom Simulations and Its Application to Alloyed Quantum Dots . Other Nanotechnology Publications . 1 January 2002 . 7 November 2020.
23. Book: Development of a Nanoelectronic 3-D (NEMO 3-D) Simulator for Multimillion Atom Simulations and Its Application to Alloyed Quantum Dots . 2002 . 7 November 2020.
24. Quantum device simulation with a generalized tunneling formula . 1995ApPhL..67.2539K . 7 November 2020. Klimeck . Gerhard . Lake . Roger . Bowen . R. Chris . Frensley . William R. . Moise . Ted S. . Applied Physics Letters . 1995 . 67 . 17 . 2539 . 10.1063/1.114451 .
25. Conductance spectroscopy in coupled quantum dots . 1994PhRvB..50.2316K . 7 November 2020. Klimeck . Gerhard . Chen . Guanlong . Datta . Supriyo . Physical Review B . 1994 . 50 . 4 . 2316–2324 . 10.1103/PhysRevB.50.2316 . 9976449 .