DTU Compute at Technical University of Denmark invites applications for a 3-year PhD position starting September 1, 2013 or later in the Section for Scientific Computing. The position is affiliated with the project Nano-Scale Design Tools for the Semiconductor Industry financed by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation, and it involves collaboration with QuantumWise A/S and DTU Nanotech.

Project Description
The overall goal of the project is to develop an atomic-scale device simulator that can compute the electrical characterization of a nano-scale device with 100,000 atoms, using large-scale algorithms and including heating/heat-transport in the simulations.

This PhD aims at developing new high-performance algorithms that will improve the capacity of the simulation tool beyond current state-of-the-art. The focus is on making the Green’s function calculations faster through a reduction of the complexity, e.g., by means of using scattering states as an alternative, or by using ideas from sparse approximations.

All applications must be submittet online. 

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Deadline for applications: 1 August 2013