Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Florida Int. Univ., Miami, FL, USA
Abstract :
After an introduction and preamble concerning the motivation and nature of this article, we proceed to the two main divisions, Part I containing a compendium of macroscopic methods used for noise computation, and Part II comprising the underlying microscopic description. In each part there are subdivisions, dealing with particular methods like the Master-Equation approach, the Langevin approach, the impedance field and transfer impedance approach, etc. Then there are sub-sub divisions dealing with particular noise manifestations, like g-r noise, velocity-fluctuation and Brownian motion noise, transport noise, etc. Illustrative examples are included, but in-depth specific device noise computations are outside the scope of this review
Keywords :
Brownian motion; random noise; semiconductor device models; semiconductor device noise; Brownian motion noise; Langevin approach; g-r noise; impedance field approach; macroscopic methods; master-equation approach; microscopic methods; noise computation; semiconductor device noise; transfer impedance approach; transport noise; velocity-fluctuation noise; Acoustic noise; Equations; Impedance; Microscopy; Monte Carlo methods; Noise generators; Quantum mechanics; Radiative recombination; Semiconductor device noise; Statistics;