Coupling of the PISCES device modeler to a 3-D Maxwell FDTD solver

Author

Thomas, Vincent A. ; Jones, Michael E. ; Mason, Rodney J.

Author_Institution

Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NM, USA

Volume

43

Issue

9

fYear

1995

fDate

9/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

2170

Lastpage

2172

Abstract

We show how PISCES-like semiconductor models can be joined non-invasively to finite difference time domain models for the calculation of coupled external electromagnetics. The method involves “tricking” the standard current boundary condition for the device model into accepting an effective parallel external capacitance. For nearly steady state device conditions we show the results for a transmission line-coupled PISCES diode agree well with those for an ideal diode

Keywords

Maxwell equations; finite difference time-domain analysis; semiconductor device models; semiconductor diodes; 3-D Maxwell FDTD solver; PISCES device modeler; coupled external electromagnetics; current boundary condition; finite difference time domain models; parallel external capacitance; semiconductor models; transmission line-coupled diode; Boundary conditions; Capacitance; Conductivity; Coupling circuits; Electromagnetic coupling; Electromagnetic modeling; Finite difference methods; Maxwell equations; Semiconductor diodes; Time domain analysis;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9480

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/22.414557

Filename

414557