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GNU Archimedes, the Free Semicondutor Device Simulator

Documentation 0.0.1 for Archimedes 0.0.7
Jean Michel Sellier
Universit'a di Catania

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• Contents
• Copying
• GNU Free Documentation License
• Why GNU Archimedes? A brief history...
  • The Scientifical and Industrial Motivations
  • The Ethical Motivations
  • A Short Remark on Acknowledgments
  • Do you want to support GNU Archimedes?
  
  
• Introduction
  • Overview
  • A First Example: The $ n^+$ -$ n$ -$ n^+$ Diode
  
  
• Physical Models employed in GNU Archimedes
  • The Semiclassical Approach
  • The Quantum Effects
  • The Particle Dynamics
    • The Band Structure
    • The Drift Process
  • Initial Conditions
  • Contacts and Boundaries
    • Insulator Boundaries
    • Ohmic Contacts
    • Schottky Contacts
  • The Scattering Process
    • The Choice of the Scattering
  • The Simplified MEP Model
    • Coupling Simplified MEP model and Monte Carlo method
  
  
• Coupling between Monte Carlo and Poisson
  • Introduction
  • The Cloud-in-a-Cell algorithm
  • The Stationary Poisson Equation
  • The Non-Stationary Poisson Equation
    • Numerical Resolution of the NSP Equation
  • Electric Field Calculation
  
  
• GNU Archimedes Commands Syntax
  • ACCEPTORDENSITY
  • CIMP
  • COMMENTS
  • CONTACT
  • DONORDENSITY
  • LEID
  • MATERIAL
  • TRANSPORT
  • MOSFET
  • FINALTIME
  • TAUW
  • TIMESTEP
  • XLENGTH
  • YLENGTH
  • XSPATIALSTEP
  • YSPATIALSTEP
  • QUANTUMEFFECTS
  • NOQUANTUMEFFECTS
  • MAXIMINI
  • NOMAXIMINI
  • SAVEEACHSTEP
  • LATTICETEMPERATURE
  • STATISTICALWEIGHT
  • MEDIA
  • OUTPUTFORMAT
  
  
• Example: The MESFET device.
  • The Monte Carlo MESFET simulation
  • The Fast Monte Carlo MESFET simulation
  
  
• Acknowledgments
• About this document ...

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