Contents:

• Overview
• Basic Principles:
  • What is ATLAS?
  • Create a structure for simulation
  • Create the mesh
  • Define the doping profiles
• Elements of the ATLAS input deck
• ATLAS inputs and outputs
• ATLAS framework architecture
• ATLAS framework and modules:
  • S-Pisces
  • Giga
  • Quantum
  • MixedMode
  • Luminous
• Mesh design:
  • Basic guidelines
  • Effect on MOSFET drain current
  • Effect on current gain of a BJT
• Contact definition
• S-Pisces physical models: which model?
• Device simulation models
• Mobility models: which one?
• Recombination model hierarchy
• Generation model hierarchy
• Carrier statistics models
• Lattice heating and energy balance simulations
• Recommended physical model selections
• Numerical methods for isothermal drift diffusion
• ATLAS syntax guide
• The curevetracer:
  • Overview
  • Features
  • A load line approach
  • Typical applications
• Syntax guide
  • TRACE parameters
  • Data output
• Sources of error in device simulation
• Solving doping profile errors
• Solving material parameter errors
• Solving model parameter errors
• Solving mesh errors
• External effects
• How to tune device simulators
• Lattice heating simulations
• Tuning lattice heating simulations
• Energy balance simulations
• Tuning energy balance equations
• Examples of calibration parameters

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