This document contains a proposal for the creation of a simulator that can accurately model the interaction of electromagnetic (EM) and semiconductor effects for modern wireless devices including nonlinear and/or active devices. The proposed simulator couples the balanced semiconductor equations (charge, momentum, kinetic energy) with a FDTD full-wave Yee-based electromagnetic (EM) simulator. The resultant CAD tool is able to model the response of one semiconductor device to both small signal and DC bias based on the process parameters (material, charge distribution and doping) without any a-priori knowledge of the device performance characteristics, thus making it extremely useful in modeling and integrating novel devices in RF and Wireless topologies. As a proof of concept an n+--i--n+ diode will be simulated. In the future, more complicated structures, such as MODFETs, will be modeled as well.

Orientador: Hugo Enrique Hernandez Figueroa / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Eletrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-15T19:32:10Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_CarlosHenriquedaSilva_D.pdf: 6145760 bytes, checksum: b129064af29e8b7052b13e0b422b299c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Esse trabalho tem por objetivo desenvolver algoritmos bio-inspirados (Algoritmo Genético, Estratégia Evolutiva e Sistema Imunológico Artificial) eficientes (tempo de processamento e convergência), e flexíveis (multi-plataforma), para a otimização de dispositivos eletromagnéticos nos domínios da frequência e do tempo. Além disso, para satisfazer a demanda computacional requerida nessas otimizações, foram implementadas versões paralelas dos algoritmos bio-inspirados e do método das diferenças finitas no domínio tempo em três dimensões (FDTD 3D) para serem executados em cluster de computadores. A eficiência e flexibilidade dos algoritmos desenvolvidos foram confirmadas através da aplicação criteriosa de testes de desempenho disponíveis na literatura. Isto permitiu a proposta e simulação de novos e complexos dispositivos eletromagnéticos baseados em estruturas metamateriais / Abstract: The objectives of this work are to develop efficient (runtime and convergence) and flexible (multiplatform) bio-inspired algorithms (Genetic Algorithm, Evolution Strategy and Artificial Immune System), for the optimization of electromagnetic devices either in frequency and time domain. In addition, to satisfy the computational requirements for these optimizations a parallel version of these bio-inspired algorithms and a three-dimensional finite difference time domain (3D FDTD) were developed capable to be processed in cluster computers. The successful performance of these parallel resources was confirmed by their careful assessment through key tests available in the specialized literature. This permitted the proposal and simulation of novel and complex electromagnetic devices based on metamaterial structures / Doutorado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Doutor em Engenharia Elétrica