A new presentation on our microcavity model has been added to our Laser Diodes application page.

A copy of a talk given at the CASICON2021 conference by our CEO and founder, Dr. Simon Li, has been uploaded to our Miscellaneous Conferences page.

A new presentation on how to convert existing VCSEL input files from a scalar model to a full vectorial solution has been posted to our Laser Diodes application page.

Crosslight is proud to announce new features & milestones for its upcoming v2021 release. In addition to multiple bug fixes and improvements, the following
new feature/improvements were made:

• LINUX platform release Process and Device simulation with improved GUI support
• Metal/semiconductor interface to support the same metal in contact with multiple regions of semiconductor
• Hot carrier injection model implemented using hydrodynamic TCAD simulation to support modeling of long term reliability related to hot carrier injection in transistors
• Hydrogen and other impurity diffusion common in TFT process
• Interface between LTSpice project files and mixed-mode TCAD simulation, so that it is convenient to start with a LTSpice simulation when adding circuit elements to TCAD simulation.
• Field-induced trap emission (Poole-Frenkel) model
• VCSEL/TMM model improved to handle tunnel juction cascade MQW VCSEL
• Special treatment minority carrier in wide bandgap materials enhanced to improve convergence
• Mesh-bending model improved to treat TFT-OLED with multiple cells

This version will be released later this year, after final testing has been completed. Customers with an up-to-date maintenance contract can contact their local sales representatives if they wish to try these new features right away.

A new presentation on crosstalk and interference effects between thin film transistors and integrated AMOLED devices has been posted to our Misc. Microelectronics page.

A new tutorial movie from Dr. Joachim Piprek of the NUSOD institute has been posted. It is an introduction to optoelectronic device simulation using PICS3D, with a particular focus on VCSEL modeling.

We are proud to announce the fourth annual winner of a collaboration with Assistant Professor Can Bayram of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As part of this collaboration, students worked with Crosslight TCAD tools in an academic setting and the best projects were selected for a prize.

Congratulations to the 2021 winners of this award:

• Yu-Chieh Chiu for “Designing Efficient Micro Light Emitting Diodes for Display Applications”
• Jonah Messinger for “Harnessing Cobalt-60 Gamma Radiation with ZnTe Gammavoltaic Devices and an LuI3 Scintillator Interface for Clean Firm Power Generation”

A new presentation on hot carrier injection degradation in thin film transistors has been posted to our Misc. Microelectronics page.

A new presentation on grain boundary effects in thin film transistors has been posted to our Misc. Microelectronics page.

Two new TFT presentations have been posted to our Misc. Microelectronics page. The first is an update on our existing hysteresis models while the second shows our models for hydrogen ion diffusion.