About this book
Introduction
The book presents a comprehensive treatment of the numerical simulation of semiconductor devices. After an overview of the basic physics of fluctuations in semiconductors, noise modelling techniques are introduced for the small-signal case. In particular, a detailed treatment is devoted to Green's function approaches such as the Impedance Field Method. Then, the numerical implementation of such approaches within the framework of multi-dimensional numerical device models is discussed in detail with reference to the customary Finite-Boxes discretization scheme. Finally, the topic of large-signal noise simulation is addressed within the framework of the Harmonic Balance approach, and implementation details are given for the non-autonomous case. The application fields covered range from low-noise, small-signal amplifiers to nonlinear circuits such as RF and microwave frequency multipliers and mixers.
Keywords
Semiconductor device numerical simultation integrated circuit noise in linear circuits noise in nonlinear circuits noise in semiconductors semiconductor devices
Authors and affiliations
- Fabrizio Bonani
- Giovanni Ghione
- 1.Dipartimento di ElettronicaPolitecnico di TorinoTorinoItaly
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