... meaning^2.1

In early times, the term 'computer' denoted a person who does computations.

... transistors^2.2

The word transistor stems from transconductance varistor.

...POISSON^2.3

SIMÉON DENIS POISSON, French mathematician, 1781-1840.

...BOLTZMANN^2.4

LUDWIG BOLTZMANN, Austrian physicist, 1844-1906.

...WIGNER^2.5

EUGENE PAUL WIGNER, Hungarian physicist, 1902-1995.

...SCHRÖDINGER^2.6

ERWIN RUDOLF JOSEF ALEXANDER SCHRÖDINGER, Austrian physicist, 1887-1961.

... prohibitive^2.7

Suppose we are only interested in the static case, we still have 6 solution variables. Considering a coarse mesh of only 100 grid points in each direction, this would require to solve an equation system with $10^{12}$ unknowns, which is beyond any computational feasibility.

... function^2.8

GEORGE GREEN, British mathematician, 1793-1841.

...HAMILTONian^2.9

WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON, Irish Mathematician, 1805-1865.

...FOURIER^2.10

JEAN BAPTISTE JOSEPH FOURIER, French mathematician, 1768-1830.

...GAUSS^2.11

JOHANN CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS, German mathematician, 1777-1855.

...HERMITian^2.12

CHARLES HERMITE, French mathematician, 1822-1901.

...MAXWELLian^3.1

JAMES CLERK MAXWELL, British physicist, 1831-1879.

...FERMI^3.2

ENRICO FERMI, Italian physicist, 1901-1954.

...DIRAC^3.3

PAUL ADRIEN MAURICE DIRAC, British physicist, 1902-1984.

... results^3.4

A simulator employing analytical non-parabolic bands was used for this simulation.

... regions^3.5

In the stationary case, the quantum-mechanical current density (2.16) is, of course, equal in Region 1 and Region N, since the right hand side of (2.17) is zero. Considering only the incident wave in Region 1 and the transmitted wave in Region N allows to define a transmission coefficient $TC\leq 1$.

...BRILLOUIN^3.6

MARCEL LOUIS BRILLOUIN, French physicist, 1854-1948.

...AIRY^3.7

GEORGE BIDDELL AIRY, British mathematician, 1801-1892.

... an^3.8

JOSEF HOËNÉ DE WRONSKI, Polish mathematician, 1778-1853.

...HERMITian^3.9

For free states, which is the kind of application investigated in Section 3.5.3, the transfer matrix is HERMITian:

$$T_{11} = T_{22}^\ast$$

$$T_{12} = T_{21}^\ast$$

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...LORENTZian^3.10

Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, Dutch physicist, 1853-1928.

...BOSE^3.11

SATYENDRA NATH BOSE, Indian physicist, 1894-1974.

...EINSTEIN^3.12

ALBERT EINSTEIN, German physicist, 1879-1955.

...BESSEL^3.13

FRIEDRICH WILHELM BESSEL, German mathematician, 1784-1846.

... distance^4.1

Note that, especially in the three-dimensional version of MINIMOS-NT, there may be several boundaries with equal minimum distance. Furthermore, the boundaries with the minimum distance are not necessarily the boundaries with the highest tunnel current density. A manual specification of the boundaries may be necessary to avoid ambiguities.

...NEWTON^4.2

Sir ISAAC NEWTON, English mathematician and physicist, 1643-1727.

... an^4.3

CARL GUSTAV JACOB JACOBI, German mathematician, 1804-1851.

...TAYLOR^A.1

BROOK TAYLOR, British mathematician, 1685-1731.