ELECTROMAGNETIC AND TRANSPORT CONSIDERATIONS IN SUBPICOSECOND PHOTOCONDUCTIVE SWITCH MODELING

被引:32
作者
ELGHAZALY, SM
JOSHI, RP
GRONDIN, RO
机构
[1] Center for Solid State Electronics Research, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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D O I
10.1109/22.54932
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
It is now possible to use optoelectronic techniques to both generate and measure electrical waveforms with subpicosecond rise times. These rise times invalidate assumptions commonly made in developing equivalent circuit models for transmission lines and other simplifications commonly made in modeling conductivity. In this paper we discuss how a combination of direct finite-difference time-domain solutions of Maxwell’s equations and Monte Carlo models of photocarrier transport can be used to avoid making these assumptions. © 1990 IEEE
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页码:629 / 637
页数:9
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