devicegen 1.0.4

devicegen is a gated heterostructure device generator. It facilitates the creation of Gmsh mesh files corresponding to a gate geometry defined in a GDS layout text file.

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About devicegen

devicegen is a gated heterostructure device generator. It facilitates the creation of Gmsh mesh files corresponding to a gate geometry defined in a GDS layout text file.

Installation

To install devicegen, we recommend first creating the device_gen environment with conda using:

$ conda env create -f environment.yml
$ conda activate devicegen

and then running:

$ pip install .

in the devicegen repository.

Community

You are welcome to create new features for devicegen. To do so, please create a user-owned fork of the devicegen repository and submit a pull request containing your modifications.

Copyright

devicegen is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the file COPYING in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/, for a description of the GNU General Public License terms under which you can copy the files.

Reporting bugs in devicegen

Please report any bug by creating an issue on the devicegen GitHub page: https://github.com/nanoacademic/devicegen/issues.

Scientific research

If you use devicegen in any work leading to a scientific publication, we would love to know ! Please contact us at: [e-mail].

Contacting Nanoacademic Technologies

The devicegen package is developed and maintain by Nanoacademic Technologies. For any question that is not a bug report, please contact us at: [e-mail].

About Gmsh

devicegen uses Gmsh to create its meshes. Gmsh is "an open source 3D finite element mesh generator with a built-in CAD engine and post-processor", which is released under the GPL license. For more information on Gmsh, please visit: https://gmsh.info/.