A Physically Based Mobility Model for Numerical Simulation of Nonplanar Devices

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 1988, Pages 1164-1171

  Lombardi, Claudio ^a   Manzini, Stefano ^a   Saporito, Antonio ^a   Vanzi, Massimo ^a  

^a STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS--DESIGN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES--NUMERICAL METHODS;

MOBILITY MODELS; MOSFETS; NONPLANAR DEVICES; SILICON INVERSION LAYERS;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES, MOSFET;

EID: 0024105667     PISSN: 02780070     EISSN: 19374151     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/43.9186     Document Type: Article

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