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Numerical simulation of semiconductor devices
- Course code: FMCC055
- Course higher education credits: 7.5
- Department: MICROTECHNOLOGY AND NANOSCIENCE
- Graduate school: Microtechnology and Nanoscience
- Course is normally given: LP3 every two years, starting 2016
- Language: The course will be given in English
OrganisationThe course consists of eight lectures that will be given once a week. Three home assignments will be distributed. Content- Introduction, Computer experiments, Calibration
- Methods to solve the Boltzmanns transport equation
- Drift-Diffusion and Hydrodynamic models
- Monte Carlo simulations
- Drift-Diffusion: Boundary conditions and Heterostructures
- Drift-Diffusion: Numerical methods
- Introduction to Monte Carlo simulations
- Monte Carlo simulations of semiconductor materials
- Monte Carlo simulations of semiconductor devices
- Further analyses (AC, transient, noise) and other tools
- Summary
ExaminationApproved home assignments.
Course literatureDistributed articles and copies of lecture notes. Further reading- S. Selberherr, Analysis and simulation of semiconductor devices, Springer Verlag 1984.
- G. F. Carey et al., Circuit, device and process simulation: mathematical and numerical aspects, Wiley 1996.
- G. Baccarani, Process and device modeling for microelectronics, Elsevier 1993.
- C. Jacoboni and P. Lugli, Monte Carlo method for semiconductor device simulation, Springer Verlag 1989.
- Advanced device modeling and simulation, edt. by T. Grasser, World Scientific 2003.
Contact information
Email:
rodilla@chalmers.se
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