PC-1D Version 3: Improved speed and convergence

Author

Basore, Paul A.

Author_Institution

Sandia Nat. Lab., Albuquerque, NM, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

7-11 Oct 1991

Firstpage

299

Abstract

PC-1D, a semiconductor-device modeling program for personal computers, now computes faster, converges to a solution for a wider range of problems, and offers several new features. An improved numerical algorithm for updating the carrier potentials after each iteration which improves the program´s ability to converge to a solution is described. Additional features of the version are options to create a printable file which lists all parameters for a given problem, and the ability to generate an auxillary space-time graph. To demonstrate the capabilities of the new version, an example is presented which explores the effect of surface recombination on photoconductance-decay measurements

Keywords

electronic engineering computing; semiconductor device models; PC-1D Version 3; auxillary space-time graph; carrier potentials; numerical algorithm; personal computers; photoconductance-decay measurements; semiconductor-device modeling program; surface recombination; Convergence; Documentation; Error correction; Laboratories; Microcomputers; Photoconductivity; Photovoltaic systems; Radiative recombination; Silicon; Spontaneous emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Photovoltaic Specialists Conference, 1991., Conference Record of the Twenty Second IEEE

Conference_Location

Las Vegas, NV

Print_ISBN

0-87942-636-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PVSC.1991.169227

Filename

169227