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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Device Simulator"”.
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A quantum mechanical semiconductor device simulator
Semiconductor device simulators have generally been based on either classical or semi-classical approaches. In these approaches, the Poisson's equation is solved with either the current continuity equation or the Boltzmann transport equation. Methods based on quantum mechanics have been generally …
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MIT Device Simulation WebLab : an online simulator for microelectronic devices
In the field of microelectronics, a device simulator is an important engineering tool with tremendous educational value. With a device simulator, a student can examine the characteristics of a microelectronic device described by a particular model. This makes it easier to develop an intuition for …
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A Device-Level FPGA Simulator
… many tool vendors offer behaviorally-based simulators aimed at easing the complexity of large FPGA designs. At times, a behaviorally-modeled design does not work in hardware as expected or intended. VTsim, a Virtex-II device simulator, was designed to resolve this and many other design …
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Full band ensemble Monte Carlo simulation of silicon devices
A Monte Carlo simulator for silicon devices has been developed. The band structure data for this self-consistent device simulator were computed using the empirical pseudopotential method. The ensemble Monte Carlo technique used in the simulations is described in detail. A homogeneous simulator, …
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On the relationship between carrier mobility and velocity in sub-50 mm MOSFETs via calibrated Monte Carlo simulation
… sub-50 nm NMOSFETs, a 2D full-band Monte Carlo device simulator was calibrated in the regime sensitive to transport parameters. The relationship between electron mobility and high-electric-field velocity at the source-channel potential energy barrier was investigated. The results show a strong …
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Simulation of iron impurity gettering in crystalline silicon solar cells
… (12E) simulation tool and applet. The 12E simulator models the physics of iron impurity gettering in silicon solar cells during high temperature processing. The tool also includes a device simulator to calculate cell performance after processing. By linking input materials, processing, and …
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JHDLBits: An Open-Source Model for FPGA Design Automation
… connectivity database, and VTsim, a Virtex-II device simulator -- are linked together to provide an integrated design environment. Strategies and philosophies of the open source movement are also examined to successfully establish the support for and involvement of the FPGA research community …
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Full-band Monte Carlo simulation of hot electrons in scaled silicon devices
"A full-band Monte Carlo device simulator has been used to study the effects of device scaling on hot electrons in different types of n-channel MOSFETs and flash memory structures. A MOSFET with a single source/drain implant, an LDD MOSFET, an SOI MOSFET, and a MOSFET built on top of a heavily …
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Study of subthreshold behavior of FinFet
… is critically important in the case of submicron devices for the successful design and implementation of digital circuits. Fin Field Effect Transistor (FinFET) is considered to be an alternate MOSFET structure in the deep sub-micron regime. A 3D Poisson equation solver is employed to study the …
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Monte Carlo Simulation of Silicon Devices Including Quantum Correction and Strain
The state of the art for full-band Monte Carlo device simulation is advanced on two fronts. First, quantum effects are taken into account by including quantum corrections in the semiclassical Monte Carlo framework. A quantitative study of corrections based on the Wigner transport equation and the …
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Statistical modeling and simulation of variability and reliability of CMOS technology
… In addition, the relentless downscaling of devices to keep up with Moore's law has significantly increased the time-zero variability caused by Random Dopant Fluctuation, Mean Gate Length Deviation, and Line Edge Roughness. Because of their possible correlation with time dependent aging …
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Technology for Planar Power Semiconductor Devices Package with Improved Voltage Rating
The high-voltage SiC power semiconductor devices have been developed in recent years. They cause an urgent in the need for the power semiconductor packaging to have not only low interconnect resistance, less noise, less parasitic oscillations, improved reliability, and better thermal management, …
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NANOSCALE EFFECTS IN JUNCTIONLESS FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS
… it was not possible to fabricate a useful JLFET device, as it requires a very shallow channel region. Very recently, the emergence of new and advanced technologies has made it possible to create viable JLFET devices using nanowires. This work aims to computationally investigate the interplay of …
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MODELING QUANTUM AND COULOMB EFFECTS IN NANOSCALE ENHANCEMENT-MODE TRI-GATE III-V MOSFETs
… strain engineering in extremely scaled silicon devices and a lack of demonstrated gain in performance at the product level in nanowires, nanotubes, graphene, and other exotic channel materials give good reason to continue semiconductor device scaling using high-transport III-V (such as InGaAs …