Massively parallel methods for semiconductor device modelling

Computing (Vienna/New York)

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-27

  Coomer, R K ^a,b   Graham, I G ^a,b  

^a University of Bath ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Domain decomposition massively parallel; Drift diffusion equations; Finite element methods; Gummel's method; Preconditioned conjugate gradient methods; Schur complement; Semiconductor device

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELECTRONS; ELECTROSTATICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DRIFT DIFFUSION EQUATION; ELECTROSTATIC POTENTIAL EQUATIONS; GUMMEL DECOUPLING METHOD; MASSIVELY PARALLEL METHODS; PARALLEL ITERATIVE METHODS; PRECONDITIONED CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHODS; SCHUR COMPLEMENT;

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICE MODELS;

EID: 0029733560     PISSN: 0010485X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02238289     Document Type: Article

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