Before circuit design can begin on any advanced semiconductor manufacturing process, the electrical behavior of the devices — transistors, diodes, resistors — must be described accurately in so-called ...

New models of how two types of power transistors perform will result in more efficient smart electrical circuits, making such technologies as cars and home appliances more reliable and environmentally ...

Penn State and Philips researchers have merged the best features of their respective approaches to produce a new mathematical model that describes the behavior of the MOS transistor in a wide class of ...

SAN FRANCISCO — The Compact Model Council (CMC) has selected the PSP model, jointly developed by Pennsylvania State University and Royal Philips Electronics, as the next generation industry standard ...

Transistors are no doubt one of humankinds greatest inventions. However, the associated greatness brings with it unprecedented complexity under the hood. To fully understand how a transistor works, ...

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Si2 Compact Model Coalition has released important updates to the popular BSIM-Bulk standard, a compact SPICE model developed by researchers at the University of ...

LEUVEN, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Magwel announces that TowerJazz has evaluated and qualified Magwel’s Power Transistor Modeling tool (PTM). TowerJazz is now providing PTM techfiles to facilitate ...

Owing to the difficulties associated with substitutional doping of low-dimensional nanomaterials, most field-effect transistors built from carbon nanotubes, two-dimensional crystals and other ...

Field-effect transistors are key components of sensors, electrical circuits, or data storage devices. The transistors used to date have been mainly based on inorganic semiconductors such as silicon.

The Professional Research Experience Program (PREP) is a special partnership between the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Colorado Boulder. PREP provides ...

Models are critical for IC design. Without them, it’s impossible to perform analysis, which in turn limits optimizations. Those optimizations are especially important as semiconductors become more ...