This course is currently in development. Items will be deployed as they develop.

Outline:

1. Computational Electronics
2. Crystallography and Bandstructure
   • Crystallography
     • Direct Lattice
     • Reciprocal Lattice
     • Miller Indices
   • Bandstructure
     • Bonding and Bands: General considerations
     • Tools on the nanoHUB.org
     • Bandstructure Calculation:
       • Introduction to Bandstructure Calculation
       • Empirical Pseudopotential method (EPM)
3. Semiconductor Transport Models
   • Introduction to Drift-Diffusion Model
     • Introduction of the Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE)
     • Derivation of the Drift-Diffusion (DD) Model
     • Boundary Conditions (BC)
     • Carrier Action
       • Drift and Diffusion Processes
       • Generation-Recombination Processes
     • DD Equations: Numerical Solution
       • Finite-Difference (FD) Method
       • FD Implementation for Poisson and Continuity Equations
       • Numerical solution methods of the linear system of equations Ax=f
       • Numerical Solution of Coupled Set of Discretized Poisson and Continuity Equations: Gummel and Newton Method
     • Application Example for DD Model
   • Hydrodynamic Modeling
     • Need for Hydrodynamic Model
     • Hydrodynamic Model
       • Basic hydrodynamic equations
       • Ensemble relaxation rates and their calculation
     • Limitations of the HD Model
4. Introduction to Silvaco Atlas (Device Simulation Platform)
   • Silvaco Syntax Part 1
   • Silvaco Syntax Part 2
   • Mobility Modeling
   • Generation-Recombination Mechanisms Modeling
   • Hydrodynamic and Energy Balance Models Syntax
5. Use of Silvaco’s Victory Device (ATLAS) to Modeling of Si-Based Devices
   • Classical Device Modeling Examples
     • SOI Devices
       • SOI Technology Brief Overview
       • Silvaco Modeling of SOI Devices
   • Modeling of Self-Heating Effects in Nanoscale Devices
   • Quantum Effects
     • General Consideration of Quantum Effects
     • Quantum-mechanical space quantization effect
       • Quantum correction methods
         • Analytical corrections
           • Hansch method
           • Van Dort method
         • Numerical approaches
           • Density gradient method (DG) (valid for drift-diffusion model only)
           • Bohm Quantum Potential (BQP)
           • Solution of the Schrödinger equation
     • Treatment of Tunneling
       • WKB Approximation
       • Transfer Matrix Approach
       • Band-to-Band Tunneling

National Science Foundation, National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure (NNCI)

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Dragica Vasileska (2023), "Semiconductor Device Modeling and Simulation," https://nanohub.org/resources/37981.

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1. SDMS_Vasileska
2. Silvaco