Simulation Standard

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

20 years ago

Accurate Spice Netlist Extraction in Stellar Using New Substrate Partition Feature

Introduction By default STELLAR calculates the capacitances between interconnect lines and the whole substrate. In certain conditions it may lead to some inaccuracies. For example STELLAR may calculate the capacitance

20 years ago

Atlas Device Simulation of Amorphous Oxide Semiconductor Thin-Film Transistors

1. Introduction Amorphous oxide semiconductor materials have attracted much attention as key components of TFTs for flexible electronics [1]. The advantages of such materials include flexibility and transparency which are

20 years ago

Simulating the Source of Polarization Charge in AlGaN/GaN HFETs

Polarization-induced charges at the AlGaN/GaN interface of heterojunction field-effect transistors (HFETs) create a high density, two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in the channel. One approach to simulating the 2DEG is to

20 years ago

Interconnect Parasitic Extraction of BiCMOS Cell Using Silvaco Clever

Interconnect parasitic effects play a very important role in modern integrated circuit design, especially for digital circuit. This article presents how a cell level BiCMOS nand gate is extracted with

20 years ago

Evaluating of the Avalanche Failure of Power MOSFETs using Atlas

Introduction Power MOSFETs are widely used with an inductive load for S/W power supplies, DC-DC converters, and so on. But due to high frequency operation, the surge voltage applied to

20 years ago

Comparison of 3-Dimensional Quantum Effects in Nano Devices Using the Atlas 3D BQP Model

Introduction With the MOSFET gate lengths scaling down to sub-20nms many kinds of devices have been proposed and researched such as double-gate, tri-gate, four-gate and gate-all-around (wire) MOSFETs.

20 years ago

Enhanced Silicon Light Emission Intensity with Multiple SiGe Quantum Well Structure

Abstract The measured I-V curve from a ten period Si/SiGe MQW pin LED fabricated using a UHVCVD system is compared with ATLAS simulation results. A sizable silicon emission peak is

21 years ago

Multi-layer Organic Light Emitting Diode Simulation

A conventional 2 layer organic light emitting diode consists of a Hole Ttransport Layer (HTL) and an electron transport layer (ETL). A good OLED structure requires sufficient carrier injection so

21 years ago

Crosstalk Between Pixels of Organic Photo-Voltaic Devices

For various technological reasons, LEDs and as well as photo-voltaic devices frequently use PEDOT:PSS on top of ITO contacts as a hole injecting or hole collecting layer, respectively. However, due

21 years ago

Athena/Optolith Simulation of Proximity Lithography

Photolithography simulation is a very important part of TCAD. Accurate and predictive lithography simulation saves time and money spent on development and calibration of semiconductor technology processes.