About
The nextnano++ package provides you with tools for designing, optimizing, and analyzing optoelectronic nanodevices of arbitrary geometries in 1D, 2D and 3D. This package is the best choice for modelling properties of a vast number of semiconductor structures. It allows you to design optoelectronic devices made of quantum wells, wires, and dots.
With the nextnano++ package, you gain access to advanced computational capabilities, which includes calculation of band structures, densities of states, charge distributions, wave functions, strain, piezo effects, optical spectra, quantized conductance, and much more.
Choose your nextnano++ package plan
FreePerfect for new users Try Now |
EvaluationIdeal for testing software's full capability Try Now |
StandardTailored for professional usage Price List |
Licensing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free | Refer to Price List |
| License | None | Requires activation | Requires activation |
| Duration | - | 2 weeks | 1-3 years |
| Research Paper Publishing | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Commercial Use | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| No. of Users | 1 | 2 | Up to 10 |
| Software Updates | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Support |
| Basic Support1 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Standard Support2 | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Premium Support3 | ✗ | ✗ | Additional charge | System Compatibility |
| Operating System | Windows | All | All |
| Cloud Computing | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CPU Time Limitation | 1 min | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Database | Restricted | Open | Open | Tutorials Included |
| Input files | Basics, pn junction, Double Quantum Well, AlGaAs/GaAs 2DEG |
More than 100 | More than 100 | Simulation Features |
| Simulation Dimensions | 1D | 1D, 2D, 3D | 1D, 2D, 3D |
| Temperature Dependencies | Limited to 300 K | ✓ | ✓ |
| Crystal Symmetries: Zinc Blende, Diamond, and Wurtzite | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Materials: III-V and II-VI binary compounds & group IV semiconductors | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Alloys: Binaries, Ternaries, Quaternaries, and Quinternaries | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Doping | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Magnetic Field | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | Models Included |
| One-Band Model | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| 6-Band and 8-Band k∙p Models | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Strain: Pseudomorphic & Minimization of Elastic Energy | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Piezo- and Pyroelectric Effects | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Drift-Diffusion Model for Currents | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Recombination Models: Radiative, Shockley-Read-Hall, and Auger | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Optical Spectra: Absorption, Emission, Optical Gain | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-Consistent Schrödinger-Poisson Solver | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-Consistent Schrödinger-Current-Poisson Solver | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
Need help choosing a plan or have a question? Email us at sales@nextnano.com.
Footnotes:
(1) Basic Support includes access to: online documentation, email support for technical issues, and bug fixes. Requests can be submitted from any domain, with institutional domains given higher priority.
(2) Standard Support includes assistance in: understanding syntax of input files, reproducing results of published tutorials, understanding basic functionality of the software. This support is exclusively for requests submitted from institutional domains.
(3) Premium Support is a set of personalized in-depth support services including, but not limited, to: explanation of physics and numerical methods involved in the models, active help with convergence issues, assistance with setting up input files, guidance for optimizing device performance, prioritized implementation of requested features, and video calls for direct communication.
