Title :
Linear and nonlinear FET modeling applying an electromagnetic and electrical hybrid software
Author :
Larique, Emmanuel ; Mons, Sebastien ; Baillargeat, Dominique ; Verdeyme, Serge ; Aubourg, Michel ; Quéré, Raymond ; Guillon, Pierre ; Zanchi, Christine ; Sombrin, Jacques
Author_Institution :
Fac. des Sci., Limoges Univ., France
fDate :
6/1/1999 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
A new approach is presented in this paper to help the modeling of complex active microwave devices like field-effect transistors. This hybrid method couples an electromagnetic three-dimensional simulator to characterize the extrinsic part and a circuit software to introduce the contribution of the component intrinsic part. The interests of such approach are diverse and are discussed in this paper. Theoretical linear and nonlinear results are compared with measurements and show good agreements
Keywords :
circuit CAD; circuit simulation; digital simulation; finite element analysis; microwave field effect transistors; semiconductor device models; circuit software; complex active microwave devices; electromagnetic three-dimensional simulator; extrinsic part; intrinsic part; linear FET modeling; nonlinear FET modeling; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Coupling circuits; Electrodes; Electromagnetic coupling; Electromagnetic devices; Electromagnetic fields; Electromagnetic modeling; Finite element methods; Microwave FETs;
Journal_Title :
Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on
