Gerhard Klimeck

Gerhard Klimeck is a German-American scientist and author in the field of nanotechnology. He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (IOP), a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and a fellow of IEEE. He is the Reilly Director of the Center for Predictive Materials and Devices (c-PRIMED), the Director of nanoHUB, the Network for Computational Nanotechnology at Purdue University, and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He guides the technical developments and strategies of nanoHUB.org which annually serves over 1.5 million users worldwide with online simulations, tutorials, and seminars.[2]

Gerhard Klimeck
Born15 March 1966[1]
Essen, West Germany
NationalityUnited States, Germany
Alma materRuhr University Bochum
Purdue University
Known forNanoelectronics, nanoHUB
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineering
Electron transport
Quantum mechanics
InstitutionsPurdue University
University of Texas at Dallas
California Institute of Technology

Education

Klimeck received his Ph.D. 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.

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, California Institute of Technology. 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 JPL and Purdue, Klimeck developed the Nanoelectronic Modeling Tool (NEMO 3-D) for multi-million atom simulations. NEMO 1-D was the first quantitative simulation tool for resonant tunneling diodes and 1D heterostructures. NEMO 3-D was the first multi-million atom electronic structure code and has been used to quantitatively model optical properties of self-assembled quantum dots, disordered Si/SiGe systems, and single impurities in silicon. NEMO is based on the representation of the nanoelectronic device with atomistic empirical tight-binding. Quantitative device modeling was demonstrated without any material parameter adjustments, just by entry of geometrical structure parameters. At Purdue his group is developing a new simulation engine that combines the NEMO 1-D and NEMO 3-D capabilities into new codes entitled OMEN and NEMO5. NEMO 1-D was demonstrated to scale up to 23,000 parallel processors, NEMO 3-D was demonstrated to scale to 8,192 processors, and OMEN was demonstrated to scale to 222,720 processors.

Patents

Books
  • Computational Electronics: Semiclassical and Quantum Device Modeling and Simulation (2010) CRC Press, ISBN 1420064835[3]

Honors/Awards
  • Klimeck won 9 NASA Tech Briefs from 2004–2007,[4] various NASA Software and Space Awards and Dr. Edward Stone Award for Outstanding Research Publication 2002[5]
  • 08/2005 Human-Competitive awards in genetic and evolutionary programming– the “HUMIES”, $1,000 shared with Richard J. Terrile, Hrand Aghazarian, Michael I. Ferguson, Wolfgang Fink, Terry Huntsberger, Didier Keymeulen, Gerhard Klimeck, Mark Kordon, Seungwon Lee, Boris Oks, Chris Peay,Anastassios Petropoulos, Paul von Allmen. Karl Yee, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, paper titles: “Evolutionary Computation Technologies for the Automatic Design of Space Systems”, “Evolutionary Computation applied to the Tuning of MEMS gyroscopes”, “Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms for Low-Thrust Orbit Transfer Optimization”
  • 2008 Purdue Engineering Team Award shared with Mark S. Lundstrom and Michael McLennan
  • 2011 Gordon Bell Prize Competition Finalist, Received Honorable Mention: Mathieu Luisier, Timothy B. Boykin, Gerhard Klimeck, Wolfgang Fichtner, “Atomistic nanoelectronic device engineering with sustained performances up to 1.44 PFlop/s”, IEEE and ACM Supercomputing 2011, Nov 12-18, 2011
  • May 2011, Elected Fellow of the Institute of Physics
  • May 2011, Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, citation:"For the development, application, and dissemination of atomistic quantum simulation tools for nano electronic devices."
  • December 2012, Elected Fellow of the IEEE, citation:"for his contributions to atomistic quantum simulation tools for nanoelectronic devices"
  • #29 top invention of 2012 ranked in Discover Magazine

Interviews

Klimeck was interviewed by Claire Stirm, a HUB Liaison from HUBzero, about nanoHUB and his career. The interview was conducted at Purdue University.

Dr. Klimeck's Interview

Selected works
  • Krishna Madhavan, Michael Zentner, Gerhard Klimeck, "Learning and research in the cloud" Published online 7 November 2013, Nature Nanotechnology 8, 786–789 (2013);doi:10.1038/nnano.2013.231 PDF
  • Martin Fuechsle, Jill Miwa, Suddhasatta Mahapatra, Hoon Ryu, Sunhee Lee, Oliver Warschkow, Lloyd Hollenberg, Gerhard Klimeck, Michelle Simmons, "A single-atom transistor" Nature Nanotechnology, 19 February 2012;doi: 10.1038/NNANO.2012.21 Free PDF From Purdue Library
  • Bent Weber, Suddhasatta Mahapatra, Hoon Ryu, Sunhee Lee, A. Fuhrer, T. Reusch, D. Thompson, W. C. T. Lee, Gerhard Klimeck, Lloyd Hollenberg, Michelle Simmons, "Ohm's Law Survives to the Atomic Scale" Science 335, 64 (2012);doi: 10.1126/science.1214319 Abstract Free PDF From Purdue Library
  • Gerhard Klimeck, Michael McLennan, Sean Brophy, George Adams III., Mark Lundstrom, "nanoHUB.org: Advancing Education and Research in Nanotechnology" IEEE Computers in Engineering and Science (CISE), Vol. 10, pg. 17-23 (2008);doi:10.1109/MCSE.2008.120 Abstract Free PDF from Purdue Library
  • Gerhard Klimeck, Fabiano Oyafuso, Timothy Boykin, R. Bowen, Paul Allmen, "Development of a Nanoelectronic 3-D (NEMO 3-D) Simulator for Multimillion Atom Simulations and Its Application to Alloyed Quantum Dots (INVITED)" Computer Modeling in Engineering and Science (CMES) Volume 3, No. 5 pp 601–642 (2002) Abstract Free PDF from Purdue Library
  • Gerhard Klimeck, Roger Lake, R. Bowen, William Frensley, Ted Moise, "Quantum Device Simulation with a Generalized Tunneling Formula" Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 67, p. 2539 (1995);doi : 10.1063/1.114451 Paper
  • Gerhard Klimeck, Guanlong Chen, Supriyo Datta, "Conductance Spectroscopy in Coupled Quantum Dots" Phys. Rev. B, Vol. 50, p. 2316 (1994);doi : 10.1103/PhysRevB.50.2316 Paper

References
  1. "Netlog". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-10-24.
  2. "nanoHUB.org - Usage:Overview". nanoHUB. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  3. Book: Computational Electronics at Amazon.com
  4. Awards and Honors: Klimeck, Gerhard
  5. Short Biography of Klimeck, Gerhard
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