Wednesday, July 15

MS42
Electromagnetic and Semiconductor Device Simulation for Microelectronic and Photonic Systems

2:00 PM-4:00 PM
Room: Sidney Smith 1069

Accurate modeling of electromagnetic effects is becoming an important factor in advanced microelectronic and optoelectronic systems. Parasitic capacitances and inductances, transmission properties of interconnects, optical wave propagation effects, and electromagnetic compatibility are crucial for the performance of high-speed applications. Rigorous electromagnetic simulation coupled with nonlinear semiconductor device simulation provides predictive results and serves as a basis for extraction and calibration of higher level abstract models. This minisymposium is focused on rigorous and coupled techniques for the numerical analysis of microelectronic systems including nonlinear devices and optoelectronic components.

Organizer: Peter Regli
ETH-Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland
2:00 Modeling and Simulation of Complex Microelectronic Systems
Peter Regli, Georg Hertkorn, and Wolfgang Fichtner, Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH-Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland
2:30 Coupled Electromagnetic Field and Semiconductor Device Simulation for Microwave Applications
Christian Schuster, Andreas Witzig, and Wolfgang Fichtner, Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH-Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland
3:00 Inductance Extraction by Means of the Monte Carlo Method
Goetz Leonhardt and Wolfgang Fichtner, Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH-Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland
3:30 FDTD Simulation of Micro-Optical Devices
Thomas O. Koerner, Bernd Witzigmann, and Wolfgang Fichtner, Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH-Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland

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