Visualize Internal Physical Processes
Using simulation, you can see ‘inside” the device. Experimental measurements tell
you what happens, but not why it happens. TCAD can tell you why. For example:
• Reverse voltage characterization on a power device tells
you what happens at high reverse biases. The device experiences reverse
breakdown at a specific voltage
• A TCAD simulation can also replicate the reverse current-voltage curve,
but also can also tell you why the device is experiencing breakdown. In
TCAD the engineer can “see inside” the device and identify what region
within the semiconductor first succumbs to breakdown due to high
impact ionization generation
Loading and Running Examples
The input file can be created by the user or can be loaded from the examples library.
Familiarization with the software syntax is best executed by loading an example in the first
instance. To load an example from the DeckBuild runtime environment GUI, click: Help...
Examples..
Viewing the Results
Viewing the Results SILVACO’s visualization tool called “TonyPlot” is a feature-packed
plotting program. We will only touch on some of its more basic capabilities in this tutorial.
When a structure file or line graph is saved in SILVACO’s TCAD package, almost every
quantity required to create the structure file or line graph, will be automatically included
into the file and will be available for plotting.
Technical Library - Silvaco
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