Monte Carlo – TechConnect Briefs

Techno-economic modeling for evaluating and directing new technology development

Burk C., Burk Engineering LLC, US

Techno-economic modeling (TEM) is a valuable tool for connecting R&D, engineering, and business. By linking process parameters to financial metrics, businesses can better understand the factors affecting the profitability of their projects. TEM is useful [...]

Time-Domain Monte-Carlo and Noise Analysis of MAPS Sensors

Jankowski M., Napieralski A., Lodz University of Technology, PL

A non-typical approach to extended simulational analysis for monolithic active pixel (MAPS) based binary pixel readout circuits is presented. Circuit solutions and simulation results are presented and discussed. Applications of particle detection/tracking are quite wide, [...]

Monte Carlo Simulation of Electrochemical Detection of Redox Molecules with Nanoscale Redoxcycling

Zhu P., Iwahara S., Nakazato K., Uno S., Ritsumeikan University, JP

Biosensors that can detect minute quantities of important redox molecules in the human body are increasingly gaining attention nowadays. Currently, electrophoresis,fluorescence and amperometric detection methods are the common techniques used for such purpose. The previous [...]

Analytic Model forAmorphous GST OTS in Phase Change Memory Cell with Hopping Transport

Wang C., Wang H., Wang W., Wang C., Wang H., Wang W., Cao Y., Wang C., Wang H., Wang W., Ye Y., He J., PKU-HKUST Shenzhen-Hongkong Institution, CN

This paper presents an analytic model for amorphous GST OTS in phase-change-memory cell with the hopping transport mechanism, which is widely used in the organic semiconductor device simulation. In this work an equivalent hopping probability [...]

A Fully Automated Method to Create Monte-Carlo MOSFET Model Libraries for Statistical Circuit Simulations

Wang J., Trombley H., Watts J., Randall M., Wachnik R., IBM Semiconductor Research and Development Center, US

As the MOSFET continues to shrink, device-to-device variations become increasingly important. Therefore, it is critical to develop accurate, Monte-Carlo (MC) models that capture various device variations to allow statistical circuit simulations. To model the global [...]

Correlated statistical SPICE models for High-Voltage LDMOS Transistors based on TCAD statistics

Seebacher E., Steinmair A., austriamicrosystemsAG, AT

Accurate process variation coverage within SPICE models has become an essential demand from the design community. These variations can be simulated most efficiently with statistics based models which avoid unrealistic pessimistic corners. Sufficient measurement data [...]

Precise Simulation of Freezing Transitions

Nayhouse M., Orkoulas G., UCLA, US

Despite recent advances, precise simulation of freezing transitions remains a challenging task. In this work, a simulation method for fluid-solid transitions, based on a modification of the constrained cell model of Hoover and Ree, is [...]

Sulfur-33 Nanoparticles: A Possible Target for Neutron Capture Therapy of Cancer

Porras I., University of Granada, ES

Sulfur nanoparticles, enriched in the isotope S-33 are potential neutron capturers for enhancing neutron radiation dose in tumors, because of a nuclear reaction of this isotope which produces a high energy alpha particle which delivers [...]

The Self-Assembly of Nano-Objects code (SANO-Grid) using Grid Interpolation technique: Application to epitaxial organic monolayers adsorbed on metal surfaces

Roussel T.J., Vega L.F., Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. (ICMAB-CSIC), ES

One of the main challenges is to precisely position the first molecular building blocks in the first layer of thin films in order to tune their hetero-epitaxial properties, or else to adjust the substrates for [...]

Gold Nanoparticles as contrast media in dual-energy radiography: a monte carlo study

Jackson P.A., Geso M., RMIT University (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology), AU

There has been recent interest in the use of gold nanoparticles as contrast media in cancer diagnosis. This utilises either a high-concentration suspension to highlight all areas of vasculature or as an antibody-conjugated species with [...]