Industrial Application of Heterostructure Device Simulation

We give an overview of the state-of-the-art of heterostructure RF-device simulation for industrial application based on III–V compound semiconductors. The work includes a detailed comparison of device simulators and current transport models to be used, and addresses critical modeling issues. Results from two-dimensional hydrodynamic simulations of heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs) and high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) with MINIMOS-NT are presented in good agreement with measured data. The simulation examples are chosen to demonstrate technologically important issues which can be addressed and solved by device simulation.