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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.

3 years ago

Advanced TCAD Modeling of HfO2-based ReRAM: Coupling Redox Reactions and Thermal Effects

This paper presents a TCAD modeling approach for HfO2-based ReRAM (Resistive Random Access Memory). For describing the switching and retention behaviors of a ReRAM cell, the proposed model includes the

3 years ago

Numerical Algorithm to Perform Viscoelastic Analysis

Numerical Algorithm to Perform Viscoelastic Analysis Viscous materials exhibit both viscous and elastic characteristics when undergoing deformation. The response of such materials to force is characterized by two distinct

3 years ago

2023 TCAD Baseline Release

New Features in the 2023 Baseline Release:

  • Section 1: Process Simulation – New Features in 2023 Baseline Release
  • Section 2: Device Simulation – New Features in 2023 Baseline Release

3 years ago

Simulation Framework for Device-packaging Co-design for Power Electronics

The past several years has seen a fast deployment of wide-bandgap power devices in fast chargers, electric vehicles, data centers and renewable energy processing. The performance of power devices is

4 years ago

Understanding of Geometrical Boundary Conditions in Victory Process

It is common to run the process simulation for the part of a larger structure just to reduce the computation time. To account for the influence of parts of the

4 years ago

Automatic Grid Refinement for Thin Material Layer Etching in Process TCAD Simulations

The utilization of thin material layers is common in modern semiconductor device fabrication. Subsequent etching steps require an accurate modeling of these thin layers. Although level-set based process TCAD simulations

4 years ago

How to Search, View and Use Default Parameters from the Silvaco Material DataBase SMDB with DeckBuild

Silver, DeckBuild’s material database viewer, can be used to examine the default parameters in the Silvaco Material DataBase (SMDB) and to generate MATERIAL commands for Victory Process and Victory Device.

4 years ago

3D TCAD Simulation of Gallium Nitride Tri-gate Junction HEMT

The GaN high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) has been commercialized as a power device with performance superior to Si devices in the voltage classes from 15 V to 900 V

4 years ago

Writing an Impurity Activation Model with the Open Model Library

Accuracy of Impurity Activation is essential in correctly modeling and simulating Silicon Carbide devices. For high concentrations of dopants, it is well known that less than 100% of dopants will

4 years ago

User Probes and Arbitrary Parameter Sweeps in Victory Device

One of the new features in Victory Device is the ability to add user managed parameters to a log file. This can be used when sweeping parameters (manually or in