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10 years ago

3D Simulation of Dual-Gate Thin Film Transistors

Dual-Gate Thin Film Transistors (DGTFTs) are often used in pixel driver and peripheral circuits for liquid crystal displays. This is because of the reduction of the gate-off state leakage current

10 years ago

Effect of Fin Thickness on Subthreshold Characteristics of 10 nm FinFETs Using 3D TCAD

The planar bulk Si metal-oxide semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET) has reached its scaling limit due to various short channel effects (SCE). With 20 nm advanced planar technology, the source and

10 years ago

Simulation of a Bipolar Junction Transistor Under High and Low Current Injection Conditions

Semiconductor devices such as bipolar power transistors and solar cells may operate over a range of optical or electrical injection levels. In some cases of high injection, this may result

10 years ago

Thermo-mechanical Stress in Through-Silicon-Vias

During the last several years, the enhancement of integrated circuits (ICs) performance and power consumption have contributed to the continual scaling down the size of transistors. However, scaling down semiconductor

10 years ago

Hints, Tips and Solutions – Extract geometric information from 3D process simulation

Q: How do I extract geometric information, such as material thickness or junction depth, from the current 3D process simulation using Victory Process?

10 years ago

TCAD Simulation of Impact Ionization at Cryogenic Temperatures, down to 3 K

Some electronic devices operate at very low, cryogenic temperatures, sometimes as low as 4 K, which is the temperature of liquid helium. Such devices include infra-red (IR) photodetectors or single-photon

10 years ago

Stress Induced by Intrinsically Strained Silicon Nitride Passivation Films of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs Using Victory Process 2D

In the AlGaN/GaN HEMT fabrication process, silicon nitride (Si3N4) passivation of the HEMT surface layer, which is typically AlGaN, is commonly used to mitigate defect-related charge traps at the AlGaN

10 years ago

Victory Process 2D – A Valuable Alternative To SUPREM-based Simulators

SUPREM-IV – Stanford University PRocEss Modeling Program was first released 30 years ago. Since then its descendants - Athena from Silvaco and TSUPREM-4TM from TMA/Avant/Synopsys - have been 2D process

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