Simulation Standard

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

22 years ago

Capacitance Coupling Calculation of IPS mode TFT-LCD Using Clever

The increasing demand of the TFT-LCD industry has lead to a rapid growth in display size and resolution. The higher cell packing density results in a narrowing viewing angle and

22 years ago

Can Athena get the STRESS in Compound Advanced material?

Q: Can ATHENA get the STRESS in Compound Advanced material? A: The ATHENA STRESS command has been augmented to allow the 2 Dimensional stress distribution. To get the STRESS, the

22 years ago

Simulating Selective and Non-Selective Epitaxy Over Oxide Isolated Regions Using Athena

In certain cases, most notably in modern bipolar and SiGe HBT structures, epitaxial steps are performed after the oxide isolation structures have been already created. Thus the initial surface prior

22 years ago

Process and Device Simulation of Field Emission Microtrides

One of the most beneficial merits of computer-based experiment using TCAD lies in its capability of a total simulation of the target device. One can consider its novel fabrication process

22 years ago

Pending Issues in the Modeling of Concentrator Solar Cells

The modelling of concentrator solar cells for real conditions of operation inside optical concentrators is a subject almost untreated. Consequently, this work highlights the main specific situations that should be

22 years ago

How can I view a Foundry DRC run in Expert?

Q: How can I view a Foundry DRC run in Expert? A: Before a Foundry will start creating the masks to fabricate a design, they normally will do some sort

22 years ago

Using Expert’s Pcell Feature to Generate Complex Shaped Layers

One of the strengths of Expert is to generate complex shaped layers such as spiral inductors, parabolic waveguides, etc. For the case of the spiral inductor, it has already been

22 years ago

Cross-Sectional Viewer

Cross-Sectional Viewer is a tool in the Expert layout editor that simulates the cross-sections of ICs along an arbitrary drawn cut-line on the layout. Cross-Sectional Viewer is a link between

22 years ago

How do you perform a lift off procedure in ATHENA?

A common technique for creating metal contacts is one known as a lift off. When performing a lift off process step, in order to create metal contacts, for example, it

22 years ago

Transient Simulations of Edge Emitting Fabry-Perot InP/InGaAsP Laser Diode Using Silvaco TCAD Tools

In this communication we present a brief description of our initial results of transient simulation of InP/InGaAsP Fabry-Perot edge emitting laser diode structure Using Silvaco ATLAS/Blaze and Laser modules. The