Simulation Standard

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

16 years ago

Using VICTORY Process to Simulate Thermal Oxidation of Silicon at High Pressures of Ambient Gases

Developing ULSI silicon technology requires good control of dopant diffusion and minimizing defect formation during thermal oxidation. The use of high pressures of ambient gases can have a significant impact

16 years ago

Hints, Tips, and Solutions – Export 3D Structures from VICTORY Cell/Process to ANSOFT ANSYS

SILVACO provides the tool ANSYSExporter which establishes the link between SILVACO software and ANSOFT ANSYS. ANSYSExporter is fully integrated within the SILVACO environment and can be called by means of

16 years ago

The Doping Effect Simulation on the OLED Devices Using ATLAS

Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) have attracted great attention for full-color flat-panel displays since the demonstration of efficient electroluminescent devices [1]. Due to electrical doping of the electron and hole

16 years ago

Design Consideration & Performance Analysis of MCT Based Dual Band (MWIR/LWIR) Photodetector

In this paper, a physics based two dimensional (2-D) generic model of dual band mid wavelength and long wavelength infrared (MW-LW) photodetector based on HgCdTe has been reported. The paper

16 years ago

Hints, Tips, and Solutions – Conversion to Different Units

Q. How do I convert a value from one set of units into another? A. Use the DBINTERNAL CONVERT.UNITS command.

16 years ago

How to Mesh in 2D TCAD

Meshing for process in ATHENA or electrical characterisation in ATLAS is one of the biggest challenges that a user faces. Poor meshing in both ATHENA and ATLAS can lead to

16 years ago

Using VICTORY Process for Plasma Etching Simulations

VICTORY Process, the 3D process simulator now includes a module for plasma etching. The module is designed to simulate plasma etching processes at the feature-scale size. The simulation in the

16 years ago

Hints, Tips, and Solutions – Passing a Variable from an ATLAS deck into a C-Interpreter Function

The Silvaco C-Interpreter (SCI) allows convenient and flexible definition of physical models and material parameters via an ANSI standard C-language interface. The SCI uses sophisticated techniques to assemble user defined

16 years ago

Simulating Negative Bias Temperature Instability of p-MOSFETS

The degradation of MOSFET devices having relatively thin oxide layers is generally accepted as being mainly associated with the depassivation of silicon dangling bonds at the Si/SiO2 interface. These dangling

16 years ago

Coupled Optimization of Diode and IGBT Characteristics Under Clamped Inductive Switching in ATLAS MixedMode and Virtual Wafer Fab (VWF)

Virtual Wafer Fab’s powerful range of optimizers are used to investigate and minimise the coupled switching losses of a TCAD IGBT and its clamping diode in a chopper circuit. It