TCAD Sentaurus Device Optoelectronics

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Overview
Sentaurus Device is an advanced device simulator capable of simulating a wide range of semiconductor devices. It includes state-of-the-art numeric solvers and a comprehensive set of models for carrier and heat transport, quantization effects, and heterostructures. Two optional modules extend these capabilities to address the simulation needs of optoelectronic devices. The Opto option supports the simulation of light-emitting devices with advanced band structure and gain calculations. The EMW option allows full-wave solutions of the Maxwell equations to account for physical optics in advanced devices.

These advanced capabilities make Sentaurus Device the ideal tool to simulate modern optoelectronic devices such as CMOS image sensors, charge-coupled devices, solar cells, photodiodes, light-emitting diodes, and various types of lasers including vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), distributed feedback (DFB) and Fabry–Perot edge-emitting lasers. Users can generate complex 2D and 3D device structures and obtain self-consistent optoelectrothermal solutions, thereby gaining key insights into device design and operation.

Sentaurus Device is part of the comprehensive suite of Synopsys TCAD products for multidimensional process, device, and system simulation, for exploring and optimizing semiconductor technologies in a cost-effective and time-efficient manner. It interfaces with Sentaurus Process and Sentaurus Structure Editor for generating device structures, and Sentaurus Workbench for visualizing and managing simulation projects.

Benefits

• Explore new device concepts
• Characterize electrical, thermal, and optical behavior for fast prototyping, development, and performance optimization
• Study sensitivity of device characteristics to process variation for optimizing parametric yield
• Improve failure analysis