DEVICE employs the industry-proven drift-diffusion equations to model steady-state and transient behavior of charge carriers in silicon devices. Using advanced finite-element mesh generation algorithms, Lumerical DEVICE is capable of efficiently handling arbitrary geometries, allowing product engineers and research scientists to focus on innovating new integrated optoelectronic design concepts while being confident in the accuracy of the simulation results. DEVICE provides users with a complete set of tools to design and evaluate silicon devices, including integrated process simulation, a comprehensive collection of physical material models, and robust numerical algorithms for device simulation. Coupled with Lumerical’s intuitive CAD layout and powerful scripting language, rapid and accurate development of leading-edge optoelectronics devices is now possible in one seamlessly integrated, highly productive environment.

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Key Benefits
Features
Featured Applications
Supported Operating Systems

Key Benefits of DEVICE

• Decreased product development costs via highly-accurate algorithms with built-in optimization that allows for rapid virtual prototyping, reducing the need for costly physical prototypes
• Increased productivity via design tools engineered with ease-of-use in mind to facilitate fast learning and rapid deployment
• Comprehensive feature set allows flexibility to address diverse applications and design phases in one integrated device simulation environment
• Easy integration with Lumerical photonic design tools for complete characterization of optoelectronic devices in an efficient workflow

Key Features of DEVICE

• Free-form design of truly-arbitrary device geometries
• Advanced material models for silicon-based devices including CMOS
• Concurrent computing on multiple computers
• Optimization framework
• Advanced meshing algorithms
• Unstructured finite element meshing capabilities
• Powerful scripting language
• Design parameterization and hierarchical layout
• MATLAB® script integration

Electronic Device Simulation

• Drift-Diffusion Free-Carrier Model
• Robust Hybrid Gummel-Newton Solving Engine
• 2D Finite Element Mesh Generation and Refinement
• 1D and 2D Steady-State and Transient Simulation
• Integrated, Scriptable Post-Processing
• Comprehensive Selection of Advanced Silicon Material Models
• Spatially-Varying Optical Generation from Lumerical FDTD and MODE Solutions
• Integrated Analytic Process Modeling

Featured Applications of DEVICE

DEVICE addresses a wide variety of applications involving electrical characterization of silicon-based semiconductor devices. DEVICE specializes in devices that include complex optical stimuli, but also excels at modeling traditional optoelectronic and purely electrical devices. DEVICE is useful for many engineering problems of interest, including:

Integrated Optoelectronics: CMOS Image Sensor Pixel
	DEVICE can model the complex geometries of modern CMOS image sensors, and model the performance of these optoelectronic devices including the efficiency of optical to electrical conversion that takes place in CMOS imagers.  Learn more ⇒

Photovoltaics: Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cell

Nanostructured solar cells must be carefully designed to ensure that generated carriers can be efficiently collected and not lost to mechanisms such as surface recombination.  Learn more ⇒

Silicon Photonics: Waveguide-Based Optical Modulators and Detectors

DEVICE can be used to predict the performance of active silicon photonics components including such devices as optical optoelectronic modulators and waveguide-based silicon photodiodes.  Learn more ⇒

DEVICE Supported Operating Systems

• Windows XP, Vista and 7 (all 32 and 64 bit editions)
• Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Version 5 64 bit
• Contact Lumerical regarding other supported technologies

DEVICE has limited support on other operating systems that are known to be compatible with the supported systems above. This includes Windows Server editions, as well as community Linux editions such as Fedora and OpenSUSE. For operating systems not explicitly listed under supported systems, Lumerical encourages users to evaluate DEVICE on the desired platform and to contact us for installation support if necessary.