Accession Number:

AD1079860

Title:

Electro-Thermal Scaling Properties of Electron Devices: A Multi-Scale Monte Carlo Approach

Descriptive Note:

Technical Report,22 Apr 2015,21 Feb 2019

Corporate Author:

Arizona State University Tempe United States

Personal Author(s):

• Saraniti,Marco
• Albrecht,John

Report Date:

2019-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

70.0

Abstract:

This report details the completion of a modeling approach for the development of the thermal management of solid-state devices and their enclosures. By the full inclusion of the phonon dynamics within the framework of charge transport, extremely efficient particle based microscopic models in computer-aided design CAD tools for the design of electron devices has been implemented. To complement the microscopic models of the particle-based approach, we integrated them in a numerical framework based on a particle-flux paradigm in which electrons are treated as particles, while the phonon dynamics is represented as a heat flux. The two modeling approaches are a single multi-scale code that allows the extraction of novel scaling laws and performance metrics by modeling charge and heat transport as a property of the devices and the environment. Such code will allow for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, the identification of electro-thermal design metrics and scaling laws for the design of electron devices integrated with their passive heat management components.

Descriptors:

• computer aided design
• temperature control
• charged particles
• crystal lattices
• heat flux
• high electron mobility transistors
• energy transfer
• electrons
• heat transfer
• charge carriers
• semiconductor devices
• crystal lattice vibrations
• semiconductors
• solid state electronics

Subject Categories:

• Thermodynamics
• Electricity and Magnetism

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE