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Talk to our Technical ExpertsSemiconductor device simulation splits by physics as much as by tool. Pick the device or effect you're working on and trace it back to the method. For a quick definition, the glossary is faster.
Issues run back to 1998, written for engineers who model processes and devices. Most articles take a single problem and work it through on Silvaco tools, at whatever length the physics demands.
A simulation flow for normally-off p-GaN HEMTs. It calibrates the device physics first, then models leakage, dynamic RDS(on) and breakdown, and hands design exploration to machine learning.
Read the latest issueSilvaco's own application notes and white papers sit here with papers from outside journals that used Silvaco tools. Each one stands alone, so it can go straight to whoever approves the tool.
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The TCAD quick-start guides let you learn at your own pace. If you teach or run a research group, the University Program is the way in; over 200 universities are on it.
Installation and license problems are a job for Silvaco support, not training.
Years of benchmark work and published results went into these examples, and each one shows a tool on a real problem. They're as useful for an evaluation as for teaching or self-study.
Each Silvaco software package installs the example set for its own version. If one listed here is missing from your installation, you're on an older release. Update from Support and Downloads, or ask Silvaco support which version you need.
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