Noise in Semiconductor Devices
Subtitle: Modeling and Simulation
By: by Fabrizio Bonani, Giovanni Ghione
Contributors: Ghione, Giovanni
Series: Springer Series in ADVANCED MICROELECTRONICS -- 7; Springer Series in ADVANCED MICROELECTRONICS -- 7
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9783642085864; 9783662045305
Subjects: Electronics; Mathematical physics; Physics; Software engineering
Description: The book presents a comprehensive treatment of the numerical simulation of semiconductor devices. After an overview of the basic physics of fluctuations in semiconductors, noise modelling techniques are introduced for the small-signal case. In particular, a detailed treatment is devoted to Green's function approaches such as the Impedance Field Method. Then, the numerical implementation of such approaches within the framework of multi-dimensional numerical device models is discussed in detail with reference to the customary Finite-Boxes discretization scheme. Finally, the topic of large-signal noise simulation is addressed within the framework of the Harmonic Balance approach, and implementation details are given for the non-autonomous case. The application fields covered range from low-noise, small-signal amplifiers to nonlinear circuits such as RF and microwave frequency multipliers and mixers.
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Table of contents: title: Noise in semiconductor devices; title: Noise analysis techniques; title: Physics-based small-signal noise simulation; title: Results and Case Studies; title: Noise in large-signal operation.