Ph.D. Candidate
Division of CAD Research,
Institute of Microelectronics,
Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Tel: +86-10-6278-4684 ext. 123
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Biography
Ximeng Guan received his B.E. degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering,
Tsinghua University in 2005. He is now working towards his Ph.D. degree at the
Institute of Microelectronics ,
Tsinghua University, under the guidance of Prof. Zhiping Yu.
His research interests are in the modeling of nanoscale electronic devices, including
the exploration of novel channel materials, modeling of nanoscale contacts/interfaces, and
the evaluation of novel device concepts for future
computing and storage systems. He has authored or co-authored 16 journal and conference papers,
including 3 first-author IEDM papers, 1 EDL paper and 3 SISPAD papers, covering the topics
of quantum transport simulation, bandstructure calculation, channel strain modeling, III-V device
performance prediction, carbon-based resistive memory simulation and atomistic level interface study.
From Jan. 2008 to Aug. 2008, he was a visiting researcher at
Stanford Nanoelectronics Group,
during which time he worked under the guidance of Prof. H.-S. Philip Wong,
Prof. Zhiping Yu,
and Prof. Krishna Saraswat,
focusing on the modeling of novel interface technologies of nanoelectronic devices.
From Jul. 2006 to Sept. 2006, he worked as an intern student at
Intel China Research Center, focusing on parallel bandstructure calculation for low dimensional semiconductors.
Ximeng Guan is a student member of IEEE. He is one of the four winners of the
2009 IEEE Electron Device Society PhD Student Fellowship.
From 2006 to 2007, he served as the vice chair of
the IEEE Student Branch in Tsinghua, and co-organized the 3rd IEEE Region 10 Student Congress.
From 2007 to 2008 he served as the vice chair of the IEEE Electron Device Society's Tsinghua Chapter,
and co-organized IEDST 2007.
Best Student Report, Doctoral Academic Forum, Tsinghua University.
Jan. 2007
Dr. Cheming Hu Scholarship for Outstanding Research
Oct. 2006
VIMICRO First-Class Scholarship
May. 2006
Best Student Report, Doctoral Academic Forum, Tsinghua University.
Dec. 2005
Second Place Award, Intel High Performance Computation and Optimization Contest in China
Jul. 2005
Graduate with honor.
Honeywell Scholarship for undergraduate overall merit.
Excellent graduate thesis.
2001-2005
Scholarship for excellent curricular performance every year.
Publications
Ximeng Guan, Yu He, Liang Zhao, Jinyu Zhang, Yan Wang, He Qian, and Zhiping Yu,
"Simulation Study of Switching Mechanism in Carbon-Based Resistive Memory with Molecular
Dynamics and Extended H¨ąckel Theory-Based NEGF Method,"
International Electron Devices Meeting
(IEDM'09),
, Baltimore, MD, USA, Dec. 7-9, 2009 (PDF online soon).
Ximeng Guan, Qiushi Ran, Ming Zhang, Zhiping Yu, and H.-S. Philip Wong, "Modeling of Schottky
and Ohmic Contacts between Metal and Graphene Nanoribbons Using Extended Haeckel Theory-Based NEGF Method,"
Tech. Digest of International Electron Devices Meeting
(IEDM'08),
pp. 197-200, San Francisco, CA, USA, Dec. 15-17, 2008.
[PDF]
Ximeng Guan, Ming Zhang, and Zhiping Yu, "Surviving Process
Variation: Investigation of CNR MOSFETs with Tapered Channels Using Fully
Self-Consistent NEGF and Tight-Binding Methods," IEEE Electron Device Letters
(IEEE EDL) Vol. 29, Issue 7, pp. 759-761, 2008.
[PDF]
Ximeng Guan, Ming Zhang, Qiang Liu, and Zhiping Yu, "
Simulation Investigation of Double-Gate CNR-MOSFETs with a Fully
Self-Consistent NEGF and TB Method," Tech. Digest of International Electron Devices Meeting
(IEDM'07),
pp. 761-764, Washington D.C. USA, Dec. 10-12, 2007.
[PDF]
Ximeng Guan, Liu Yang, and Zhiping Yu,
"Monte Carlo Simulation of Electron Mobility in Strained Si DG-FETs with TB Bandstructure Calculation,"
International Workshop of Computational Electronics,
(IWCE'07),
Session 2, UMass (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Oct. 2007, online version in Journal of Computational
Electronics (J. Comput. Electron. )
vol. 7, Issue 3 (special issue for IWCE), pp. 192-196, Sept. 2008.
[PDF]
Ximeng Guan, Yaohua Tan, Jing Lu, Yan Wang, and Zhiping Yu,
"A Self-Consistent Simulation of InSb Double-Gate MOSFETs Using Full-Band Tight-Binding Approach,"
2007 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices
(SISPAD'07),
pp. 161-164, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 25-27, 2007.
[PDF]
Ximeng Guan, and Zhiping Yu,
"Atomistic Approach to Thickness-Dependent Bandstructure Calculation of InSb UTB,"
IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology
(IEEE TNANO),
vol. 6, p. 101, Jan. 2007.
[PDF]
Ximeng Guan, Jing Lu, Yan Wang, and Zhiping Yu,
"Atomistic-Level Modeling for Thickness Dependence of Electron Mobility in InSb QW-FETs,"
2006 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices
(SISPAD'06),
p. 248, Monterey Plaza Hotel, Monterey, CA, USA., September 6-8, 2006.
[PDF]
Ximeng Guan, and Zhiping Yu,
"Fast Algorithm for Bandstructure Calculation in Si Nanowires Using Supercell Approach,"
Special Issue on Computational Methods and Techniques for Nanoscale Technology Computer Aided Design,
the International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering
(IJCSE),
Vol. 2, Issue 3/4, pp. 129~133, 2006.
[PDF]
Ximeng Guan, and Zhiping Yu,
"Orientation-Dependent Energy Bandstructure Calculation for Silicon Nanowires Using Supercell Approach with the Tight-Binding Method,"
IEEE Conference on Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits
(EDSSC'05),
p. 19, Hong Kong, Dec. 2005.
[PDF]
Ximeng Guan, and Zhiping Yu,
"Supercell Approach in Tight-Binding (TB) Calculation of Si and Ge Nanowire Bandstructure,"
Chinese Physics Letters
(CPL),
vol. 22 p. 2651, 2005.
[PDF]
Jenny Hu, Ximeng Guan, Donghun Choi, James S. Harris, Krishna C. Saraswat, and H.-S. Philip Wong,
"Fermi level depinning for the design of III-V FET source/drain contacts,"
16th International Symposium on VLSI Technology, Systems and Applications
(2009 VLSI-TSA),
Hsinchu, Twaiwan, 27-29 April, 2009.
[PDF]
Qiushi Ran, Mingzhi Gao, Ximeng Guan, Yan Wang, and Zhiping Yu,
"First-principles investigation on bonding formation and electronic structure of metal-graphene contacts,"
Applied Physics Letters
(APL),
vol. 94, 103511, Mar. 2009.
[PDF]
Liu Yang, Ximeng Guan, and Zhiping Yu,
"A Direct Solution Method for Carrier Transport Using Markov Process Representation,"
Journal of Computational Electronics
(J. Comput. Electron.),
online first, Feb. 2008.
[PDF]
Ming Zhang, Qiushi Ran, Ximeng Guan, and Zhiping Yu,
"Comparative Simulation Study of GNR-FETs using EHT- and TB-based NEGF,"
2008 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices
(SISPAD'08), p. 165,
Sept. 9-11, Hakone, Japan, 2008.
[PDF]
Tao Li, Ximeng Guan, Zhiping Yu, and Wei Xue,
"Computation of Si Nanowire Bandstructures on Parallel Machines Through Domain Decomposition,"
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(ICCS'06),
vol. 3991, pp. 250-257, 2006.
[PDF]
Development of Parallel/Grid Computation Aimed at Device Scaling and Nanoelectronics,
Intel grant: Q3 2006 - Q2 2009.
Atomistic Methods for Nanoscale Device Modeling. The project is sponsored by China's
NSF Grant 90307016, 973 Program 2006CB302700, and Major Science Project 2006CB932404.
Paper Reviewing Experiences
IEDM'07, ICSICT'08, Physica E, IEEE Eletron Device Letters.
Research Skills
Programming: C, MATLAB for numerical simulation in parallel
Quantum transport simulation using Non-Equilibrium Green's Function (NEGF) method, based
on atomic orbitals.
Bandstructure calculation for low-dimensional strained systems.
Intel's programming tools for high performance computing: ICC/vTune/MKL/Thread Profiler/OpenMP/MPI
