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TCAD Challenges for Heterostructure Microelectronics

Eugeny LYUMKIS, Rimvydas MICKEVICIUS, Oleg PENZIN, Boris POLSKY, Karim El SAYED, Andreas WETTSTEIN, Wolfgang FICHTNER

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TCAD is gaining acceptance in the heterostructure industry. This article discusses the specific challenges a device simulator must manage to be a useful tool in designing and optimizing modern heterostructure devices. Example simulation results are given for HEMTs and HBTs, illustrating the complex physical processes in heterostructure devices, such as nonlocal effects in carrier transport, lattice self-heating, hot-electron effects, traps, electron tunneling, and quantum transport.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E86-C No.10 pp.1960-1967
Publication Date
2003/10/01
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Special Section INVITED PAPER (Special Issue on Heterostructure Microelectronics with TWHM2003)
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