Series in Microelectronics
edited by Wolfgang
Fichtner
Qiuting Huang
Heinz Jäckel
Gerhard Tröster
Bernd Witzigmann
Denis Dolgos,
Full-Band Monte Carlo
Simulation of Single Photon
Avalanche Diodes.
2012. X, 174 pages. ISBN 978-3-86628-421-0
Abstract:
This thesis describes the simulation of high-energy charge transport in
single photon avalanche diodes by means of the full-band Monte Carlo technique.
A computationally efficient formulation of the scattering rates, while keeping
the main physical features, renders the CPU-intensive calculation of the
breakdown characteristics of single photon avalanche diodes feasible on
standard computer clusters. \textit{CarloS}, a novel full-band Monte Carlo simulator, is
applied to the high-field charge dynamics of the multiplication process.
Compared to previous works employing simple charge transport models, the
solution of the Boltzmann transport equation and the incorporation of the
full-band structure puts the evaluation of the
breakdown probability, the time to avalanche breakdown and its jitter on deeper
theoretical grounds. Additionally, this thesis presents an impact ionization
model for the scattering rates and secondary carrier energies based on the
random-κ approximation.
About the Author:
Denis Dolgos was born on October the 6th, 1981 in Böblingen, Germany. He enjoyed his childhood in Herrenberg. In 2001 he began studying physics at the
University of Stuttgart receiving his Dipl.-Phys. degree in 2007. Denis
completed his diploma work at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in
Stuttgart. From 2008 to 2011 he was a research and teaching assistant at the
Integrated Systems Laboratory at ETH Zürich in Switzerland. His research
interests lie in the Monte Carlo modeling of semiconductor physics. In his
spare time, Denis enjoys playing the guitar.
Keywords: III-V Halbleiter,
Ladungsträgertransport, Photon, Lawinendiode,
Avalanchediode, Monte-Carlo-Methode,
vollständige Bandstruktur, Galliumarsenid, Indiumphosphid, Indiumaluminiumarsenid
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