Computational Electronics: Semiconductor Transport and Device Simulation

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Device Simulation for Silicon ULSI....Pages 3-13
Drift-Diffusion Systems: Variational Principles and Fixed Point Maps for Steady State Semiconductor Models....Pages 15-20
Drift-Diffusion Systems: Analysis of Discretized Models....Pages 21-26
Simulation of a Steady-State Electron Shock Wave in a Submicron Semiconductor Device Using High-Order Upwind Methods....Pages 27-32
Adaptive Mesh Refinement for 2-D Numerical Analysis of Semiconductor Devices....Pages 33-36
Adaptive Grids for Semiconductor Modelling....Pages 37-41
A Numerical Large Signal Model for the Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor....Pages 43-46
The Program OSMOSIS: A Rigorous Numerical Implementation of Augmented Drift-Diffusion Equation for the Simulation of Velocity Overshoot....Pages 47-50
A New Technique for Including Overshoot Phenomena in Conventional Drift-Diffusion Simulators....Pages 51-54
A Self-Consistent Calculation of Spatial Spreading of the Quantum Well in HEMT....Pages 55-58
A New Nonparabolic Hydrodynamic Model with Quantum Corrections....Pages 59-62
The Conditions of Device Simulation using Full Hydrodynamic Equations....Pages 63-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Device Simulation Augmented by the Monte Carlo Method....Pages 69-74
Ensemble Monte Carlo Simulation of Femtosecond Laser Excitation in Semiconductors....Pages 75-80
Dynamics of Photoexcited Carriers in GaAs....Pages 81-86
The DAMOCLES Monte Carlo Device Simulation Program....Pages 87-92
Iterative Spectral Solution of Boltzmann’s Equation for Semiconductor Devices....Pages 93-95
Computer Experiments for High Electron Mobility Transistors and Avalanching Devices....Pages 97-105
Minority Electron Transport Across Submicron Layers of GaAs and InP....Pages 107-110
Photoconductive Switch Simulation with Absorbing Boundary Conditions....Pages 111-114
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
Simulation of Sub-Micron GaAs MESFETs for Microwave Control....Pages 115-118
Eigenvalue Solution to Steady-State Boltzmann Equation....Pages 119-122
Variable Threshold Heterostructure FET Studied by Monte Carlo Simulation....Pages 123-126
A Study of the Relaxation-Time Model based on the Monte Carlo Simulation....Pages 127-130
Field Assisted Impact Ionization in Semiconductors....Pages 131-136
Parallelization of Monte Carlo Algorithms in Semiconductor Device Physics on Hypercube Multiprocessors....Pages 137-140
Comparative Numerical Simulations of a GaAs Submicron FET using The Moments of the Boltzmann Transport and Monte Carlo Methods....Pages 141-144
J-V Characteristics of Graded Al x Ga 1-x As Heterojunction Barriers Using the Self Consistent Ensemble Monte Carlo Method....Pages 145-148
Monte Carlo Simulation of Lateral Surface Superlattices in a Magnetic Field....Pages 149-152
Quantum-Well Infrared Photodetectors: Monte Carlo Simulations of Transport....Pages 153-156
Simulation of non-stationary electron transport using scattering matrices....Pages 157-160
Rigid Pseudo-Ion Calculation of the Intervalley Electron-Phonon Interaction in Silicon....Pages 161-164
Numerical Study of High Field Transport in SiO 2 with Traps: A Coupled Monte Carlo and Rate Equation Model....Pages 165-168
Transient Monte Carlo Simulation of Heterojunction Microwave Oscillators....Pages 169-172
Monte Carlo Simulations for Submicron InP Two-Terminal Transferred Electron Devices....Pages 173-176
Monte Carlo Simulation of Low-Dimensional Nanostructures....Pages 177-180
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Many-Body Effects and Density Functional Formalism in Nanoelectronics....Pages 183-188
Modeling InAs/GaSb/AlSb interband tunnel structures....Pages 189-194
Quantum Kinetic Theory of Tunneling Devices....Pages 195-200
Transport in Electron Waveguides: Filtering and Bend Resistances....Pages 201-206
Front Matter....Pages 181-181
Numerical Methods for the Simulation of Quantum Devices Using the Wigner Function Approach....Pages 207-213
Density Matrix Coordinate Representation Numerical Studies of Quantum Well and Barrier Devices....Pages 215-218
A Distribution-Function Approach in the Many-Body Quantum Transport Theory of Quantum-Based Devices....Pages 219-222
The Generalized Scattering Matrix Approach: An Efficient Technique for Modeling Quantum Transport in Relatively Large and Heavily Doped Structures....Pages 223-226
Quantum Ray Tracing: A New Approach to Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems....Pages 227-230
On Transport in Heterostructures within the Independent-Particle Picture....Pages 231-234
Transient Response in Mesoscopic Devices....Pages 235-238
The Inclusion of Scattering in the Simulation of Quantum Well Devices....Pages 239-242
Numerical Study of Electronic States in a Quantum Wire at Crossing Heterointerfaces....Pages 243-246
Dissipative Quantum Transport in Electron Waveguides....Pages 247-250
Exchange Energy Interactions in Quantum Well Heterostructures....Pages 251-254
Asymptotic Structure of the Density-Gradient Theory of Quantum Transport....Pages 255-258
Calculation of Transport Through Ballistic Quantum Structures....Pages 259-262
Numerical Study of the Higher Order Moments of Conductance Fluctuations in Mesoscopic Structures....Pages 263-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-268