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Summer School 2002
Monte Carlo Device Simulation |
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Umberto
Ravaioli - ravaioli@uiuc.edu
Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering,
Computational Science and Engineering Program, Beckman Institute, and NCSA
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Outline of Lecture
- Full Band Monte Carlo
- Silicon band structure
- Empirical pseudo-potential band structure calculation
- Monte Carlo simulation with full band
- 3-D parallel simulation of MOSFETs
- Simulation of Schottky barrier MOSFETs
- Time-Dependent Monte Carlo Simulation
- 1-D transient simulation - Gunn diode
- Multidimensional simulation - MESFET
- Approaches for noise analysis
- Full-wave simulation of electromagnetics
- Simulation of real space transfer devices
- Statistical Enhancement for Monte Carlo Simulation
- Noise in Monte Carlo simulation
- Multi-comb method
- Enhancement method used in DAMOCLES
- Adaptive gather method
- Comparisons of the approaches
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Background Articles |
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"Full-Band Monte Carlo Investigation of Hot Carrier
Trends in the Scaling of
MOSFETs", A. Duncan, U. Ravaioli, and J. Jakumeit, IEEE Trans Electron Dev., vol. 45, pp. 867-876, 1998. (169 KB PDF) |
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"Integration of a Particle-Particle-Particle-Mesh Algorithm with the Ensemble Monte Carlo
method for the Simulation of Ultra-Small Semiconductor Devices", C. Wordelman and U. Ravaioli, IEEE Trans Electron Dev.,
vol. 47, pp. 410-416, 2000. (115 KB PDF) |
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"Simulation of Schottky Barrier MOSFET's with a Coupled Quantum Injection/Monte Carlo
Technique", B. Winstead and U. Ravaioli, IEEE Trans Electron Dev., vol. 47, pp. 1241-1246, 2000. (101 KB PDF) |
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"Ananlysis of Variance-Reduction Schemes for Ensemble Monte Carlo
Simulations of Semiconductor Devices", A. Pacelli and U. Ravaioli, Solid-State Electronics, vol. 41, pp. 599-605, 1997. (542 KB PDF) |
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Lecture 1 |
Full Band Monte
Carlo Simulation |
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Presentation - download
(2.4 MB PDF) |
Lecture 2 |
Time-dependent Monte Carlo Simulation |
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Presentation - download
(590 KB PDF) |
Lecture 3 |
Statistical Enhancement (Variance
Reduction) for Monte Carlo Simulation |
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Presentation - download
(248 KB PDF) |
Lab Exercises |
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Silicon Band Structure
Calculation (79 KB PDF)
BANDS1 FORTRAN code - download
(24 KB)
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