Attaway
Baillieul
Barouch
Basu
Belta
Bifano
Bulkeley
Caramanis
Cassandras
Cole
de Winter
Gevelber
Gopalan
Hauser
Hazony
Hu
Ivanov
Klapperich
Lin
Lund
Pal
Paschalidis
Perkins
Sarin
Sharon
Vakili
Zhang

Areas of Interest:

Dr. Cole has worked in the area of simulating physical processes, particularly as concerns the development and manufacturing of semiconductor devices and microchips, as well as the prediction of electron transport phenomena within the semiconductor devices. A key aim here is to use the appropriate blend of accuracy in the fundamental physics versus more phenomenological physical descriptions, in conjunction with advanced numerical algorithmic schemes, to create simulation programs that can accurately predict the processes and device behavior with reasonable execution times. By creating such programs with fast execution times and good numerical robustness properties, and by ensuring that adequate calibration procedures are followed, then the speed of semiconductor technology development can be significantly improved, costly experiments can be reduced, and better design points can be achieved. Dr. Cole's research work has entailed thermodynamic analyses of operations performed on electrodynamic systems consisting of classical charged particles interacting with classical electromagnetic radiation, including zero-point radiation, and the predicted thermal-like effects of accelerating simple electromagnetic systems through the vacuum. Current research activities include improvements in microlithography simulation models and methods, and thermodynamic considerations of advanced energy extraction mechanisms.