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Monte Carlo and hydrodynamic simulation of a one dimensional n+ – n – n+ silicon diode
An improved closure relation - based on the entropy principle - is implemented in a Hydrodynamic
model for electron transport. Steady-state electron transport in the "benchmark" n+ - n - n+ submicron silicon diode is simulated and the quality of the model is assessed by comparison
with Monte Carlo results
Coupled quantum-classical transport in silicon nanowires
We present an extended hydrodynamic model describing the transport of
electrons in the axial direction of a silicon nanowire. This model has been formulated by
closing the moment system derived from the Boltzmann equation on the basis of the maximum
entropy principle of Extended Thermodynamics, coupled to the Schr¨odinger-Poisson
system. Explicit closure relations for the high-order fluxes and the production terms are
obtained without any fitting procedure, including scattering of electrons with acoustic
and non polar optical phonons. We derive, using this model, the electron mobility
Ballistic charge transport in a triple-gate silicon nanowire transistor
In this paper we investigate the electrostatics and charge transport in a triplegate
Silicon Nanowire transistor. The quantum confinement in the transversal dimension
of the wire have been tackled using the Schr¨odinger equation in the Effective Mass Approximation
coupled to the Poisson equation. This system have been solved efficiently
using a Variational Method. The charge transport along the longitudinal dimension of the
wire has been considered using the semiclassical approximation, in the ballistic regime
Time-domain simulation of the full hydrodynamic model
A simple upwind discretization of the highly coupled non-linear differential
equations which define the hydrodynamic model for semiconductors is given in
full detail. The hydrodynamic model is able to describe inertia effects which
play an increasing role in different fields of opto- and microelectronics. A
silicon - structure is simulated, using the energy-balance
model and the full hydrodynamic model. Results for stationary cases are then
compared, and it is pointed out where the energy-balance model, which is
implemented in most of today's commercial semiconductor device simulators,
fails to describe accurately the electron dynamics. Additionally, a GaAs -structure is simulated in time-domain in order to illustrate the
importance of inertia effects at high frequencies in modern submicron devices.Comment: 15 pages, 8 figures, prepared using jnmauth.cl
A variance-reduced electrothermal Monte Carlo method for semiconductor device simulation
This paper is concerned with electron transport and heat generation in semiconductor devices. An improved version of the electrothermal Monte Carlo method is presented. This modification has better approximation properties due to reduced statistical fluctuations. The corresponding transport equations are provided and results of numerical experiments are presented
Full Hydrodynamic Simulation of GaAs MESFETs
A finite difference upwind discretization scheme in two dimensions is
presented in detail for the transient simulation of the highly coupled
non-linear partial differential equations of the full hydrodynamic model,
providing thereby a practical engineering tool for improved charge carrier
transport simulations at high electric fields and frequencies. The
discretization scheme preserves the conservation and transportive properties of
the equations. The hydrodynamic model is able to describe inertia effects which
play an increasing role in different fields of micro- and optoelectronics,
where simplified charge transport models like the drift-diffusion model and the
energy balance model are no longer applicable. Results of extensive numerical
simulations are shown for a two-dimensional MESFET device. A comparison of the
hydrodynamic model to the commonly used energy balance model is given and the
accuracy of the results is discussed.Comment: 18 pages, LATE
A Hydrodynamic Model for Silicon Nanowires Based on the Maximum Entropy Principle
Silicon nanowires (SiNW) are quasi-one-dimensional structures in which the electrons are spatially confined in two directions, and they are free to move along the axis of the wire. The spatial confinement is governed by the Schrodinger–Poisson system, which must be coupled to the transport in the free motion direction. For devices with the characteristic length of a few tens of nanometers, the transport of the electrons along the axis of the wire can be considered semiclassical, and it can be dealt with by the multi-sub-band Boltzmann transport equations (MBTE). By taking the moments of the MBTE, a hydrodynamic model has been formulated, where explicit closure relations for the fluxes and production terms (i.e., the moments on the collisional operator) are obtained by means of the maximum entropy principle of extended thermodynamics, including the scattering of electrons with phonons, impurities and surface roughness scattering. Numerical results are shown for a SiNW transistor
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