Noise in Semiconductor Devices

by Bonani, Fabrizio; Ghione, Giovanni

• ISBN13: 9783540665830
• ISBN10: 3540665838
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

The book deals with the numerical simulation of noise in semiconductor devices operating in linear (small-signal) and nonlinear (large-signal) conditions. The main topics of the book are: An overview of the physical basis of noise in semiconductor devices, a detailed treatment of numerical noise simulation in small-signal conditions, and a presentation of innovative developments in the noise simulation of semiconductor devices operating in large-signal quasi-periodic conditions. The main benefit that the reader will derive from the book is the ability to understand, and, if needed, replicate the development of numerical, physics-based noise simulation of semiconductor devices in small-signal and large-signal conditions.

Table of Contents

List of Symbols	xiii
Noise in Semiconductor Devices	1	(38)
Fluctuations in Semiconductors	1	(2)
Microscopic Noise Sources in Semiconductors	3	(23)
Velocity Fluctuations	4	(9)
Population Fluctuations	13	(11)
1/f-Like Fluctuations	24	(2)
Back to Basics: the Fundamental Approach	26	(4)
Equivalent Representation of Noisy Devices	30	(9)
Circuit-Oriented Device Noise Parameters	30	(3)
Nyquist Theorem for Linear Passive Multi-Ports	33	(1)
System-Oriented Device Noise Parameters: the Noise Figure	34	(5)
Noise Analysis Techniques	39	(38)
Semiconductor Device Physical Models for Noise Modeling	39	(6)
The Drift-Diffusion Model	41	(2)
The Model Solution	43	(2)
Langevin Approach to Noise Analysis	45	(13)
Green's Function Solution Techniques	45	(2)
Application of the Green's Function Technique to the Drift-Diffusion Model	47	(4)
The Green's Function Approach and Other Noise Analysis Techniques	51	(1)
Trap-Assisted GR Noise	52	(5)
Noise Analysis Through Non-stationary Transport Models	57	(1)
Applications of the Green's Function Approach: Compact Device Noise Modeling	58	(19)
Thermal Noise in a Linear Semiconductor Resistor	58	(1)
Compact Noise Models for Field-Effect Transistors	59	(8)
Measurement-Oriented Noise Models for Field-Effect Transistors	67	(2)
Compact Noise Models for Bipolar Junction Devices	69	(8)
Physics-Based Small-Signal Noise Simulation	77	(24)
Numerical Treatment of Physics-Based Device Models: a Review	77	(11)
Finite-Box Discretization of Physics-Based Models	78	(7)
Numerical Solution of the Discretized Model and Small-Signal Analysis	85	(3)
Numerical Noise Simulation: Formulation	88	(4)
Evaluating the Discretized Green's Functions	90	(1)
Evaluating the Correlation Spectra	91	(1)
Efficient Evaluation of the Green's Functions	92	(9)
The Adjoint Approach	92	(5)
The Generalized Adjoint Approach	97	(2)
Extensions of the Generalized Adjoint Approach	99	(2)
Results and Case Studies	101	(42)
Resistors	102	(11)
Noise in a Doped Semiconductor Resistor	102	(3)
Noise in a Quasi-Intrinsic Resistor	105	(4)
GR Noise in Semiconductor Samples	109	(4)
Semiconductor Diodes	113	(9)
Noise Modeling of pn junctions	113	(3)
A 2D pn Diode	116	(6)
Field-Effect Transistors	122	(14)
MESFET Noise Modeling	122	(4)
MOSFET Noise Modeling	126	(10)
Bipolar Junction Transistors	136	(7)
Noise in Large-Signal Operation	143	(34)
A System-Oriented Introduction	143	(6)
Circuit-Oriented Large-Signal Noise Analysis	149	(13)
Frequency-Domain Large-Signal Analysis of Circuits	150	(3)
Small-Signal Large-Signal Analysis of Circuits	153	(4)
Large-Signal Noise Analysis of Circuits	157	(5)
Physics-Based Large-Signal and SSLS Device Analysis	162	(6)
LS Analysis	162	(2)
SSLS Analysis	164	(4)
LS Physics-Based Noise Analysis	168	(4)
The LS-Modulated Microscopic Noise Sources	169	(2)
Evaluation of the CGF	171	(1)
Results	172	(5)
Appendix: Review of Probability Theory and Random Processes	177	(24)
A.1 Fundamentals of Probability Theory	177	(8)
A.2 Random Processes	185	(5)
A.3 Correlation Spectra and Generalized Harmonic Analysis of Stochastic Processes	190	(2)
A.4 Linear Transformations of Stochastic Processes	192	(2)
A.5 Cyclostationary Stochastic Processes	194	(3)
A.6 A Glimpse of Markov Stochastic Processes	197	(4)
References	201	(8)
Index	209