ACUTE - Assembly for Computational Electronics
Drift-Diffusion and Energy Balance Simulations
PADRE Tool in ACUTE—Modeling of silicon-based devices
PADRE Tool in ACUTE is a two-dimensional/three-dimensional simulator for electronic devices, such as MOSFET transistors.
PADRE Tool in ACUTE is a 2D/3D simulator for electronic devices, such as MOSFETs. With PADRE, users can simulate physical structures of arbitrary geometry—including heterostructures—with arbitrary doping profiles, which can be obtained using analytical functions or directly from such multidimentional process simulators as Prophet For each electrical bias, PADRE Tool in ACUTE solves coupled sets of partial differential equations (PDEs). The variety of PDE systems supported in PADRE form a hierarchy of accuracy: 1) electrostatic (Poisson equations), 2) drift-diffusion, including carrier continuity equations, 3) energy balance, including carrier temperature, and 4) electrothermal, including lattice heating.
Listed below are tools, exercises, and sets of problems that utilize the PADRE Tool in ACUTE:
Supplemental documentation:
A set of course notes on computational electronics with detailed explanations on band structure, pseudopotentials, numerical issues, and drift diffusion is also available.
SILVACO Simulator—Modeling of Silicon-Based and III-V Devices
In preparation.