Two new TFT presentations have been posted to our Misc. Microelectronics page. The first deals with bending effects while the second covers the effects of traps on hysteresis.

A new application note on insulated-gate bipolar transistors has been submitted by our collaborator, Dr. Gary Dolny. Sample input files are included on the main power device application page for interested users.

A new presentation on microlens VCSEL has been uploaded to the Laser Diode application page.

A new presentation on InGaN Micro-LEDs has been uploaded to the LED application page.

Crosslight is proud to announce new features & milestones for its upcoming v2019 release:

• Improved speed of 2.5D and 3D vectorial microcavity solvers
• Updated vectorial propagation model to support tapers in edge devices and 3D micro-lenses in microcavity vertical emitters
• New modal Near Field to Far-Field (NF-FF) transformation based on full vectorial field analysis
• Demonstration of fully-coupled optical simulation for a small VCSEL array (2×2 and 1×2)
• New Color gamut plot based on calculated LED spectrum
• New modern GUI based on Chromium and Node.js technologies
• Improved Design of Experiments features in GUI: this new “AutoTCAD” feature replaces the old “Series” interface in SimuCenter
• Improved material grading definition scheme for structures with repeated layers
• Improved edge bending scheme in layer files
• New AM modulation plot for lasers

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 application note on Silicon Superjunction MOSFET has been submitted by our collaborator, Dr. Gary Dolny. Sample input files are included on the main power device application page for interested users.

We are proud to announce the results of a pilot project with Assistant Professor Can Bayram of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As part of this project, two students who worked with Crosslight TCAD tools in an academic setting split a prize for best class project.

Congratulations to the 2019 winners of this award:

• Yi-Chia Tsai for “Investigation of the Impact of Polarization and Auger Recombination on the Wurtzite and Zincblende GaN-Based LEDs”
• Shreyas Kane Dmello for “Design of Monolithic White LED Using InGaN/GaN/InGaN MQW Structures”

A new application note on silicon JBS diode has been submitted by our collaborator, Dr. Gary Dolny. Sample input files are included on the main power device application page for interested users.

Crosslight Software is glad to announce new features in version 2018.8 of its simulation software (PICS3D and APSYS).

• Full-3D VCSEL vectorial optical model based on novel FDFD method.
• Full-3D vectorial wave optical model based on novel FDFD method, opening new possibilities in modeling of silicon photonic waveguide devices.
• New 3D mesh system with new 3D GUI.
• UCB SPICE code imported into Crosslight software as a subset of minispice module. Both circuit-only and mixed-mode TCAD simulation can be performed and 2nd-order of time-stepping from
  UCB SPICE can be used in mix-mode TCAD.
• Floating contact with zero-sum current condition implemented in basic drift-diffusion solver.
• Two-photon absorption model implemented for material optical gain model.
• Bug fixes and model upgrade in various modules.

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.

We are proud to announce the results of a pilot project with Assistant Professor Can Bayram of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As part of this project, three students who worked with Crosslight TCAD tools in an academic setting split a prize for best class project.

Congratulations to the winners of this award: Kaitlyn Ann Parsons, Bryce Davis Smith and Haonan Wu.