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Know how your circuit behaves across process variation before silicon tells you, with Monte Carlo-accurate results up to 30X faster.

10 years ago

Simulation of Device Degradation Due to Bias Temperature Stress

Introduction Bias Temperature Instability (BTI) [1] ranks among the most serious reliability issues in present-day semiconductor devices. In pMOSFETs, for instance, it is observed when large negative biases are applied

10 years ago

Using Victory Process to Create Realistic Structures for Capacitance Extraction in Clever

Silvaco offers many alternatives for creating simple 3D structures, the optimum choice depending on what the user needs to simulate. Many of the choices for creating simple 3D structures are

10 years ago

Hints, Tips and Solutions – How to best visualize vectors and field lines in TonyPlot

Traditionally, visualizing vectors by means of arrows in TonyPlot was a challenge, especially in the areas where the computational grid was dense. The vector arrows were plotted for every grid

10 years ago

Hints, Tips and Solutions – Scattering mechanisms contributing to reduced channel mobility in 4H-SiC MOSFETs

In a MOSFET structure, silicon carbide, 4H-SiC in particular, is known to exhibit lower channel mobility than Si, mainly due to Coulomb scattering at trapped charge at the SiO2/4H-SiC interface,

11 years ago

Soft Error

A soft error in the context of this article, can be defined as an unintended change in electrical state of a device or circuit, that has an origin, external to

11 years ago

Hints, Tips and Solutions – Types of 3D Delaunay Shape Refinement

Q: What Types of 3D Delaunay Shape Refinement can be used in Victory Process? A. The Victory Process cell mode Delaunay 3D device meshing algorithm already includes various TCAD-based local

11 years ago

Blue LED Simulation

It is very important to understand the operation and underlying physics of InGaN/GaN materials based electronic device in modern display industry such as flat-panel-display for back-light illumination and high efficiency

11 years ago

Unified Victory Conformal Export for 2D Process Mode

Victory Process can operate in either 1, 2 or 3-dimensions and can produce one of two different geometric representations: cell mode and process mode. Cell mode structures are generally composed

11 years ago

a-IGZO TFT Simulation

The flat panel device for active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCDs) and active matrix organic light-emitting diode displays (AMOLEDs) has utilized a low cost amorphous silicon or low temperature poly-silicon

11 years ago

Hints, Tips and Solutions – Crop and Slice using a non-convex mask in Victory Process export

Q. How can I Crop and Slice using a non-convex mask during the export? Non-Convex Mask Polygons Non-Convex Mask Polygons Previous Victory Process releases have supported convex polygon cropping, slicing