ToFeT is a model of organic electronic films, used to relate the molecular details of a film to its macroscopic properties. ToFeT has been used to successfully reproduce experimental time-of-flight (ToF) and field-effect transistors (FeT) for small-molecule systems. In future releases, ToFeT will be able to simulate a wider range of material systems and experimental measurements.
ToFeT is an open source project and has been downloaded many times from across the world. It is used in both academia and industry as a research tool, and in at least one Master’s program as an educational tool. Feedback from the community has been invaluable and further thoughts are welcomed at our mailing list.
Warning
A minor bug has been discovered when ToFeT is run at very high charge densities. Simulations that don’t implement Coulombic interactions are entirely unaffected. Everything will be fixed in the forthcoming release of version 3.0.
Note
Version 3.0 is due for release in the next couple of months. Featuring totally new data structures, 3.0 is a cleaner and more professional version which allows a huge range of electronic models to be easily implemented from the core modules.
Watch this space!
Notifications of major releases are announced on an extremely low volume mailing list: email Joe Kwiatkowski to be added.
Questions, contributions, suggestions, and rants are all welcomed at the ToFeT discussion group. You can browse the archives and contribute at the group’s webpage or subscribe by email below. Although questions are preferentially received via the ToFeT discussion group, should you wish, you can also contact Joe Kwiatkowski directly.
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Long ago, when inorganic semiconductors ruled the earth, Professor Jenny Nelson developed Monte Carlo methods to simulate charge transport in Titania. During his PhD with Jenny, Joe Kwiatkowski developed and released ToFeT to model organic electronic films, with substantial contributions from others. ToFeT is now maintained and developed by Joe at Stanford University, funded by Professors Alberto Salleo and Andrew Spakowitz, and with invaluable suggestions arriving from ToFeT users around the world.
For a full history of ToFeT and a list of the contributing authors please see Credits, and how to cite ToFeT. Please cite ToFeT with reference Kwiatkowski_2009_NanoLetters. If you would like to mention ToFeT in your talk please feel free to use the summary slide available in OpenOffice, PDF and even PowerPoint format (though you’ll probably have to tidy the formatting of the latter). For the license under which ToFeT is released, please see COPYING and COPYING.LESSER.
