Title :
Coupling the level set method with an electrothermal solver to simulate GST based PCM cells
Author :
Glière, A. ; Cueto, O. ; Hazart, J.
Author_Institution :
LETI, CEA, Grenoble, France
Abstract :
The Level Set Method and a GST thermodynamic model are coupled to an electrothermal solver to simulate GST based PCM cells. A good qualitative agreement with published results is obtained in the cell amorphization simulation and the ability of our method to simulate crystallization is demonstrated.
Keywords :
amorphisation; antimony compounds; crystallisation; germanium compounds; phase change memories; thermodynamics; GST based PCM cell simulation; GST thermodynamic; Ge2Sb2Te5; cell amorphization simulation; crystallization simulation; electrothermal solver; level set coupling method; qualitative agreement; Conductivity; Crystals; Level set; Mathematical model; Phase change materials; Switches; Crystallization; Level Set Method; PCM Simulation;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Osaka
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-419-0
DOI :
10.1109/SISPAD.2011.6035050
