Simulation Standard

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

17 years ago

Designing a High-Voltage IGBT Structure with TCAD

The Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT), is a power device that combines the high-power characteristics of bipolar transistors with the fast-switching and voltage-drive characteristics of MOSFETs. It is used in

17 years ago

Investigation of the SiGe Waveguide Photodiodes Using FDTD Method for High Speed Optical Communication

Silicon as a photonic medium has unique advantages in telecommunication systems. It is transparent in the range of optical telecommunications wavelength (1.3 and 1.55 um) and has a high index

17 years ago

A Box Method Discretisation for the Drift-Diffusion Equations in a Magnetic Field

The problem of discretising the semiconductor drift-diffusion equations in the presence of a uniform magnetic field using the Box Method has previously been addressed in the literature. For the case

17 years ago

Simulation of Resonant Tunneling Diodes Using ATLAS

This article describes a model for Resonant Tunneling Diodes (RTDs) implemented within ATLAS framework. The model is based on a self-consistent solution of Poisson and Non-Equilibrium Green’s Function (NEGF) equations

17 years ago

Modeling and Optimization of CIGS Solar Cell Module

Solar cells manufactured from wafers of crystalline or polycrystalline silicon are today the dominant technology in the commercial market. Solar cells based on thin film semiconductor are another technology with

17 years ago

Using VICTORY PROCESS for Rapid Geometry Prototyping

The fully three-dimensional process simulator VICTORY PROCESS allows user to perform a wide range of manipulations of the structure’s geometry in order to obtain the device of the desired shape.

17 years ago

3D SOI NMOSFET Simulation Using VICTORY DEVICE

SOI MOSFETs can exhibit a kink in their Id/Vd curves, which is caused by impact ionization, floating potentials, and other effects. One way of suppressing this kink effect is to

17 years ago

Crosstalk Simulation in InSb Detector Arrays

Crosstalk is one of the main parameters that critically affect the resolution of detector arrays. It results in a reduction in image clarity, thus degrading system performance. There are two

17 years ago

Simulating the Effects of Stress/Strain on a 50 nm Silicon FinFET

In modern semiconductor devices, the effects of physical lattice strain are playing an increasingly important role. One reason for this is that as device dimensions have shrunk, strains due to

17 years ago

Textured Thin-film Solar Cell Simulation

Texturing is often used to improve light trapping in thin film solar cells. The textured surfaces act to scatter the light in oblique angles lengthening the optical path and effectively