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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.

14 years ago

Hints, Tips and Solutions – Setup Athena Monte Carlo Simulation of Ion Implantation in Silicon Carbide

Monte Carlo module of Athena allows accurate simulation of ion implantation in 4H-SiC and 6H-SiC [1]. It is known that channeling effects are very pronounced in SiC since its lattice

14 years ago

TCAD Simulation of Multiple Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP)

We demonstrate the capabilities of SILVACO TCAD tools for the design and simulation of intersubband GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum well infrared photodetectors. We compute the photoconductive gain spectrum of the device

14 years ago

The Extended Gaussian Disorder Model in Atlas

In this article the various enhancements to the organic device modeling that have been implemented recently in Atlas are presented. Following the description of the carrier statistics and the new

14 years ago

Simulation of Ion Beam Etching of Patterned Nanometer-scale Magnetic Structures for High-Density Storage Applications

Fabrication of various nano-structures often requires mask controlled or patterned etching of materials. The chemical or wet etch methods cannot be used for nanoscale geometries due to the substantial isotropic

14 years ago

State of the Art 3D SiC Process and Device Simulation

Silicon has long been the semiconductor of choice for high-voltage power electronics applications [1,2]. However, wide-bandgap semiconductors such as SiC have begun to attract attention because they are projected to

14 years ago

Calibration of the Ion Enhanced Chemical Etching Model of VICTORY Process Using Virtual Wafer Fab

In this article we describe a technique to automatically calibrate parameters of an Ion Enhanced Chemical Etching model implemented in the 3D process simulator VICTORY Process to measurements published in

14 years ago

Using VICTORY Process to Model the Effect of Silicon Substrate Orientation on Oxidation Kinetics

Different crystal planes of silicon are known to have different oxidation rates, e.g. the silicon plane with Miller indices is oxidized approximately 1.7 times faster then the plane [1][2]. During

14 years ago

A Semi-Empirical Model for the Simulation of Ion Milling in VICTORY Process

The three-dimensional process simulator VICTORY Process now includes a semi-empirical model for the simulation of ion milling. During ion milling, the mill (etch) rate depends in a complex way on

14 years ago

Developing Custom Etching/Deposition Models in VICTORY Process

VICTORY Process is supplied with a wide range of models and data for an extensive set of materials, so that you can simulate many process steps without the need to

14 years ago

Simulation of Stress Evolution During Semiconductor Device Fabrication

Accurate stress simulation has become a necessary part of performance and reliability analysis of semiconductor devices. In our previous paper [1] we demonstrated that 3D stress simulation of the whole