Novel Frequency- and Time-Domain Techniques for the combined Maxwell-Dirac Problem in the Characterization of Nanodevices

The goal of this workshop is to present research activities on high-performance nanodevices for RF applications, showing the potential offered by emerging nano-scale materials. The latter include carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoribbons that exhibit unique electro-mechanical properties. The topics cover issues from production technology to recent advances in modelling. We describe the development of nanocomponents such as gas sensors, resonators, nano-antennas arrays, high-frequency interconnects, nano-electro-mechanical switches, nano-plasmonic structures, carbon based transistors and molecular devices for RF nanoelectronics. We focus on experimental techniques for the growing, assembling, positioning, contacting and broadband characterization of nanostructures, thus highlighting recent and emerging solutions. We introduce novel numerical techniques aimed at describing the coupling of Maxwell’s equations with those governing the quantum transport