Luminous3D

3D OPTOELECTRIC DEVICE SIMULATOR

Luminous3D is an advanced simulator used to model absorption and photogeneration in semiconductor devices with arbitrary topology in three dimensions. Exact solutions for general optical sources are obtained using geometric ray tracing. This feature allows Luminous3D to account for arbitrary topologies, internal and external reflections are refractions and polarization dependencies. Luminous3D is fully integrated with ATLAS and the Device3D simulator and other ATLAS device technology modules. Luminous3D allows simulation of mono-chromatic and multi-spectral sources. It allows DC, transient, AC, spectral and spatial response analysis to optical source variations. Luminous3D also provides an array of models for surface lenslets to expedite analysis of imaging devices.

Features

• Fully integrated with the ATLAS framework and Device3D simulator to allow simulation of light absorption and photodetection in all semiconductor material systems
• Self consistently solves drift-diffusion or energy-balance equations with photogeneration from an optical source
• Uses advanced three dimensional raytracing to couple between the optical source and photogeneration in the device
• Allows single or multiple optical sources. Sources can be either monochromatic or multispectral
• Provides for steady state, time domain and small signal analysis
• Supports spatial response analysis
• Supports spectral response analysis
• Integrated with Giga3D to account for self-heating effects
• Parallel 3D Ray Tracing

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