Coupling of the PISCES Device Modeler to a 3-D Maxwell FDTD Solver

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1995, Pages 2170-2172

  Thomas, Vincent A ^a   Jones, Michael E ^a   Mason, Rodney J ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CAPACITANCE; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COUPLED CIRCUITS; DIODES; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; MAXWELL EQUATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

COUPLED EXTERNAL ELECTROMAGNETICS; EFFECTIVE PARALLEL EXTERNAL CAPACITANCE; SOFTWARE PACKAGE PISCES; TRANSMISSION LINE COUPLED PISCES DIODE;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

EID: 0029378104     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: 15579670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/22.414557     Document Type: Article

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