Title :
Electro-thermal device and circuit simulation with thermal nonlinearity due to temperature dependent diffusivity
Author :
Batty, W. ; Snowden, C.M.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Microwaves & Photon., Leeds Univ., UK
fDate :
11/9/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
For the first time in electro-thermal device and circuit simulation, thermal nonlinearity due to temperature dependent diffusivity is fully treated. It is shown that transformation of the time variable must be employed. In combination with the well-known Kirchhoff transformation for temperature-dependent conductivity to solve accurately the time-dependent heat diffusion equation
Keywords :
integrated circuit modelling; semiconductor device models; thermal diffusivity; transforms; Kirchhoff transformation; circuit simulation; electro-thermal device simulation; temperature dependent diffusivity; temperature-dependent conductivity; thermal nonlinearity; time variable; time-dependent heat diffusion equation;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20001372
