Project Description

The main advantage of the development FEM device simulator is the Flexibility it can offer. The Device simulation user and developers can modify and create physical parameters, boundary conditions, or incorporate a set of additional governing equations. Parameters like effective mass and Bandgap enhancement can be calculated using DFT computation (atomistic modelling) and made available to the device simulator. Commercial tools have these parameters that are free and not always fixed by physical principles. Another advantage is that users can make maximum use of the computational resource available by tuning the complexity of the problem to be solved either by changing the refinement of the grid, incorporating additional differential equations. Simulation tool suitable to study devices other than NS-FET such as emerging non-volatile Flash memory devices and for other materials such as III-V semiconductors. An open-source device simulation tool can be accessed from users outside VIT.