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          JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• K. J. Willis, J. S. Ayubi-Moak, S. C. Hagness, and I. Knezevic,
  "Global modeling of carrier-field dynamics in semiconductors using EMC-FDTD,"
  review article, Journal of Computational Electronics 8, 153-171 (2009). 

• S. A. Scott, W. Peng, A. M. Kiefer, H-Q. Jiang, I. Knezevic, D. E. Savage, M. A. Eriksson, and M. G. Lagally,
  “Influence of Surface Chemical Modification on Charge Transport Properties in Ultrathin Silicon Membranes,”
  ACS Nano 3, 1683–1692 (2009).

• G. Qin, H. Zhou, E. B. Ramayya, Z. Ma, and I. Knezevic,
  “Electron mobility in scaled silicon metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors on off-axis substrates,”
  Applied Physics Letters 94, 073504 (2009).

• M.-H. Huang, C. S. Ritz, B. Novakovic, D. Yu, Y. Zhang, F. Flack, D. E. Savage, P. G. Evans, I. Knezevic, F. Liu, and M. G. Lagally,
  “Mechano-electronic Superlattices in Silicon Nanoribbons,"
  ACS Nano 3, 721-727 (2009).

• I. Knezevic , E. B. Ramayya , D. Vasileska, and S. M. Goodnick,
  “Diffusive Transport in Quasi-2D and Quasi-1D Electron Systems,”
  review article, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 6, 1725-1753 (2009).

• E. B. Ramayya, D.Vasileska, S.M. Goodnick, and  I.  Knezevic,        
  “Electron transport in silicon nanowires: the role of acoustic phonon confinement and surface roughness scattering,”           
  Journal of Applied Physics 104, 063711 (2008).

• X. Gao, M. D’Souza, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic,
  “Design and optimization of a GaAs-based sub-7-micron quantum cascade laser based on multivalley Monte Carlo simulation,”
  Optical and Quantum Electronics 40, 331 (2008).

• X. Gao, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic,
  “Phonon confinement and electron transport in GaAs-based quantum cascade structures,”
  Journal of Applied Physics 103, 073101(2008). 

• I. Knezevic,
  “Decoherence due to contacts in ballistic nanostructures,”
  Physical Review B 77, 125301 (2008).
  Paper recognition: Selected for the March 17, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology ( www.vjnano.org, volume 17, issue 11).

• E. B. Ramayya, D. Vasileska, S. M. Goodnick, and I. Knezevic,
  “Cross-sectional dependence of electron mobility and lattice thermal conductivity in silicon nanowires,”
  Journal of Computational Electronics 7, 319-323 (2008).

• X. Gao, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic,
  “Confined phonon scattering in Monte Carlo simulation of mid-infrared intersubband lasers,”
  Journal of Computational Electronics 7, 209-212 (2008).
  Published online January 15, 2008; available through www.springerlink.com, DOI: 10.1007/s10825-008-0175-9

• I. Knezevic,
  “Contact-induced decoherence in nanodevices,”
  Journal of Computational Electronics 7, 276-279 (2008).

• X. Gao, M. D’Souza, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic,
  “Design and simulation of deep-well GaAs-based quantum cascade lasers for 6.7 um room-temperature operation,”
  Journal of Applied Physics 102, 113107 (2007).

• G. J. Meyer, N. L. Dias*, R. H. Blick, and I. Knezevic,
  “Magnetotransport in non-planar SiGe/Si nanomembranes,”
  IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 6, 446-450 (2007).

• I. Knezevic,
  “Decoherence and quantum transport in nanodevices,”
  Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 4, 749-760 (2007).

• G. J. Meyer and I. Knezevic,
  “Simulation of high-field magnetotransport in non-planar 2D electron systems,”
  Journal of Computational Electronics 6, 219-222 (2007).

• X. Gao, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic,
  “Monte Carlo modeling of X-valley leakage in quantum cascade lasers,”
  Journal of Computational Electronics 6, 305-308 (2007).

• X. Gao, D. Botez, and  I. Knezevic,
  “X-valley leakage in GaAs-based mid-infrared quantum cascade lasers: a Monte Carlo study,”
  Journal of Applied Physics 101, 063101 (2007).

• E. B. Ramayya, D.Vasileska, S.M. Goodnick, and  I.  Knezevic,
  “Electron mobility in silicon nanowires,” 
  IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology 6, 113 (2007).

• X. Gao, D. Botez, and  I. Knezevic,
  “X valley leakage in GaAs/AlGaAs quantum cascade lasers,”
  Applied Physics Letters 89, 191119 (2006).

• P. P. Zhang, E. P. Nordberg, B.-N. Park, G. Celler, I. Knezevic, P. G. Evans. M. A. Eriksson, and M. G. Lagally,
  "Electrical conductivity in silicon nanomembranes,"
  New Journal of Physics 8, 200 (2006).

• P. Zhang, E. Tevaarwerk, B.-N. Park, D. Savage, G. Celler, I. Knezevic, P. Evans, M. Eriksson, M. Lagally,
  “Electronic transport in nanometer-scale silicon-on-insulator membranes,”    
  Nature 439, 703 (2006). 
  Paper recognition: Selected for the February 20th, 2006 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (http://www.vjnano.org, volume 13, issue 7).

• I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry,
  “A quantum many-body density matrix model for sub-femtosecond transport in mesoscopic structures,”
  Journal of Computational Electronics 3, 359-362 (2004).

• I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry,              
  "Open system evolution and “memory dressing”,”
  Physical Review A 69, 012104 (2004).
  Paper recognition: Selected for the February 9th, 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (http://www.vjnano.org, volume 9, issue 5) and the February 2004 issue of Virtual Journal of Quantum Information (http://www.vjquantuminfo.org/, volume 4, issue 2).

• I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry,              
  “Open-system nonequilibrium Green’s functions and quantum transport in the transient regime,”
  Semiconductor Science and Technology 19, S220 (2004).  

• I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry, 
  “What mesoscopic structures really “remember”: insufficiency of the open boundary approximation”,
  Superlattices and Microstructures 34, 367 (2003).  

•  D. K. Ferry, R. Akis, J. P. Bird, M. Elhassan, I. Knezevic, C. Prasad, and A. Shailos, 
  “Generalized interfaces,”              
  Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B 21, 1891 (2003).
  Paper recognition: Selected for the August 13th, 2003 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (http://www.vjnano.org, volume 8, issue 7).

• I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry,              
   “Quantum transport and memory effects in mesoscopic structures,”
  Physica E 19, 71 (2003).  

• I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry,              
  “Memory effects and nonequilibrium transport in open many-particle quantum systems”,
  Physical Review E 67, 066122 (2003). 
  Paper recognition: Selected for the July 14th, 2003 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology (http://www.vjnano.org, volume 8, issue 2).

• I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry,              
  “Partial-trace-free time-convolutionless equation of motion for the reduced density matrix”,                        
  Physical Review E 66, 016131 (2002).  

• I. Knezevic, D. Vasileska, and D. K. Ferry,      
  “Impact of Strong Quantum Confinement on the Performance of a Highly Asymmetric Device Structure: Monte Carlo Particle-Based Simulation of a Focused-Ion-Beam MOSFET”,
  IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices 49, 1019 (2002). 

• D. Vasileska, I. Knezevic, R. Akis, S. Ahmed, and D. K. Ferry,   
  "The Role of Quantum Effects on the Operation of 50 nm MOSFETs, 250 nm FIBMOS Devices and Narrow-Width SOI Device Structures,"                               
  Journal of Computational Electronics 1, 453 (2002).

• I. Knezevic, D. Vasileska, X. He, D. K. Schroder and D. K. Ferry,               
   “Low-Field Mobility and Quantum Effects in Asymmetric Silicon-Based Field-Effect Devices”,      
  Journal of Computational Electronics 1, 273 (2002).

• D. K. Ferry, R. Akis, and I. Knezevic,              
  “Quantum Waves - the Proper Basis for Low Dissipation Quantum Computing”,               
  Microelectronic Engineering 63, 17 (2002).

• D. Vasileska, R. Akis, I. Knezevic, S. N. Miličić, S. S. Ahmed and D. K. Ferry,         
  “Role of Quantization Effects in the Operation of Ultrasmall MOSFETs and SOI Device Structures”,
  Microelectronic Engineering 63, 233 (2002).

• I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry,              
  “Evolution of the reduced density matrix: a generalized projection-operator approach”, 
  Microelectronic Engineering 63, 105 (2002).

• I. Knezevic, D. Vasileska, R. Akis, J. Kang, X. He and D. K. Schroder,      
  ”Monte Carlo particle-based simulation of FIBMOS: impact of strong quantum confinement on device performance”,            
  Physica B 314, 386 (2002).

• I. Knezevic and Z. Radovic,              
  “Quasiparticle Excitation Spectrum of an Isolated Vortex in a High-Temperature Superconductor”,            
  Physica C 318,  640 (1999).

• I. Knezevic and Z. Radovic,              
  “Bound States in the Vortex Core”,                
  Solid State Phenomena 61-2,  261 (1998).

          BOOK CHAPTERS

• X. Gao, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic.,
  “Multivalley simulation and design of quantum cascade lasers,”
  in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Edited by H. S. Nalwa, American Scientific Publishers, in press. (2009)

• D. Vasileska, D. Mamaluy, I. Knezevic, H. R. Khan, and S. M. Goodnick,
  “Quantum transport in nanoscale devices,”
  in Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Edited by H. S. Nalwa, American Scientific Publishers, in press. (2009)

         CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• E. B. Ramayya and I. Knezevic,
  “Ultrascaled Silicon Nanowires as Efficient Thermoelectric Materials,”
  Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE 2009), Beijing, China, May 27-29, 2009, in press.

• K. J. Willis, S. C. Hagness, and I. Knezevic,
  “A Global EMC-FDTD Simulation Tool for High-Frequency Carrier Transport in Semiconductors,”
  Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE 2009), Beijing, China, May 27-29, 2009, in press.

• E. B. Ramayya, D. Vasileska, S. M. Goodnick, and I. Knezevic, 
  “Thermoelectric Properties  of  Silicon Nanowires,”             
  Proceedings of the 8^th International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO ‘08), Arlington, TX, August 18-21, 2008, pp. 339-342. 

• B. Novakovic and I. Knezevic,
  “Effect of contacts on quantum transport in nanostructures,”         
  Proceeedings of the 8^th International Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE NANO ‘08), Arlington, TX, August 18-21, 2008, pp. 362 - 365.

• E. B. Ramayya, D. Vasileska, S. M. Goodnick, and I. Knezevic,       
  “Electronic and Thermal Properties of Silicon Nanowires,”
  ECS Transactions 6 (4), 159-164 (2007).

• S. Sengele, B. Yang, A. Marconnet, N. Dias, K. Willis, H. Jiang, I. Knezevic, J. Booske, S.  Hagness, D. van der Weide, N. Ferrier, A. Bettermann, S. Limbach,
  “Microfabricated THz-regime Waveguides,”
  IEEE Pulsed Power Plasma Science Conference, 2007 (PPPS 2007), June 17 2007-April 22 2007, pp. 648 – 648. 

• X. Gao, M. D’Souza, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic,        
  “Design and optimization of a GaAs-based sub-7-micron quantum cascade laser based on multivalley Monte Carlo simulation,”              
  Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD '07),  University of Delaware, Delaware, 24 - 28 September, 2007,  pp. 17 – 18.
  (Best student paper award)  

• M. D’Souza, X. Gao, I. Knezevic, and D. Botez,
  “Deep-well GaAs-InGaAs-AlGaAs quantum-cascade-laser design for room-temperature operation at 6.8 µm,”
  Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Intersubband Transitions in Quantum Wells (ITQW07),  Ambleside, Cumbria, U.K., September 9-14, 2007.

• E. B. Ramayya, D. Vasileska, S. M. Goodnick, and I. Knezevic,       
   “Mobility of Electrons in Rectangular Si Nanowires,”         
  Proceedings of the 2006 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show (Nanotech 2006), Volume 3, Boston, Massachusetts, May 7-11, 2006, pp. 13-15.

• X. Gao, D. Botez, and I. Knezevic,
   “Monte Carlo simulation of AlGaAs/GaAs QCLs including both Γ and X valley transport,” 
  Conference Digest of the IEEE 20th International Semiconductor Laser Conference (ISLC’06), Waikoloa, Hawaii, 17 - 21 September, 2006, pp. 99 – 100.

• E. B. Ramayya, D. Vasileska, S. M. Goodnick, and I. Knezevic,
  “Electronic properties of silicon nanowires: confined phonons and surface roughness,”
  Proceedings of 6th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology  (IEEE Nano 2006), Cincinnati, Ohio, July 16-20, 2006.

• E. B. Ramayya, D. Vasileska, S. M. Goodnick, and I. Knezevic,
  "Mobility of Electrons in Rectangular Si Nanowires,”
  Proceedings of the 2006 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show (Nanotech 2006), Volume 3, Boston, Massachusetts, May 7-11, 2006, pp. 13-15.

• E. B. Ramayya, D. Vasileska, S. M. Goodnick, and I. Knezevic,
  “Electron transport in Si nanowires,”
  Journal of Physics: Conference Series 38, 126 (2006) – Proceedings of NPSM-7/SIMD-5 (Maui 2005).

• N. Shaji, H.Qin, I. Knezevic, C. Deneke, O.G. Schmidt, M. A. Eriksson and R.H. Blick,           
  “Electron transport in curved low dimensional electron systems,”         
  in Nonequilibrium Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference (HCIS-14), Chicago, IL, July 25-29, 2005, M. Saraniti and U. Ravaioli (Eds.),
  Springer Proceedings in Physics Series, Vol. 110, 2006.

• G. J. Meyer, N. Shaji, R. H. Blick, and I. Knezevic,
  "Conductance Resonances in Curved Quantum Cavities,"
  in Nonequilibrium Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference (HCIS-14), Chicago, IL, July 25-29, 2005, M. Saraniti and U. Ravaioli (Eds.),
  Springer Proceedings in Physics Series, Vol. 110, 2006.

• P. P. Zhang, E. Tevaarwerk, B. N. Park, D. E. Savage, G. Celler, I. Knezevic, P. G. Evans, M. A. Eriksson, and M. G. Lagally,         
  “Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy of Ultra-thin Silicon-on-Insulator,”               
  in Nonequilibrium Carrier Dynamics in Semiconductors, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference (HCIS-14), Chicago, IL, July 25-29, 2005, M. Saraniti and U. Ravaioli (Eds.),
  Springer Proceedings in Physics Series, Vol. 110, 2006.

• I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry,
  “A quantum many-body density matrix model for sub-femtosecond transport in mesoscopic structures,”
  Book of Abstracts of the 10th International Workshop on Computational Electronics (IWCE-10), Purdue University, West Lafayette, 2004, pp. 65 – 66. 

• D. K. Ferry, R. Akis, M. J. Gilbert, and I. Knezevic,
  “Do we need ‘quantum’ for quantum computing?,”
  Proceedings of SPIE 5115, 271 (2003).

• I. Knezevic and D. K. Ferry,              
  “Nonequilibrium Transport in Open Quantum Systems,”         
   in Progress in Nonequilibrium Green’s Functions II, Ed. by M. Bonitz and D. Semkat (World Scientific Press, Singapore, 2003) pp. 214-221.

• D. K. Ferry, I. Knezevic, S. M. Ramey, and L. Shifren,  
   “Nonequilibrium Transport in Nanoscale Semiconductor Devices,”     
  in Progress in Nonequilibrium Green’s Functions II, Ed. by M. Bonitz and D. Semkat (World Scientific Press, Singapore, 2003) pp. 127-142.

• D. Vasileska, I. Knezevic, R. Akis and D. K. Ferry ,       
  “The Role of the Quantization Effects on the Operation of 50 nm MOSFET and 250 nm FIBMOS Devices”,                
  in the Technical Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Modeling and Simulation of Microsystems (MSM 2002), (Computational Publications, Boston, 2002), pp. 556-559.

• I. Knezevic and Z. Radovic,
  ”Quasiparticle Spectrum of Vortices in Cuprates”,    
  Proceedings of SPIE 3481, 106 (1998). (Invited paper)