Physical Modeling and Numerical Analysis ... Evolution of Semiconductor Technology by Massimo Rudan

Webinar Series by Leading IEEE Electron Device Luminaries
as part of the Celebration of 75 Years of Invention of Transistor
Jointly Organized by IEEE EDS Delhi Chapter (New Delhi, India)
DBT Star College Status Program, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, University of Delhi and The National Academy of Sciences India - Delhi Chapter
January 25, 2023 @ 06:30 pm Indian Standard Time
Physical Modeling and Numerical Analysis Driven by
the Evolution of Semiconductor Technology
Massimo Rudan
Professor Emeritus and IEEE Life Fellow
Adjunct professor, Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering "Guglielmo Marconi"
Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
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Starting from the invention of the transistor in the late ‘40s of the last century, the semiconductor technology has steadily evolved with an impressive pace; this process, still continuing, has expanded the capabilities of the integrated circuits to the present level. One of its outcomes has been that the typical size of a transistor has shrunk from hundreds of micrometers to tens of nanometers; as a consequence, a parallel work has been carried out by researchers, to the purpose of refining the models describing the semiconductor-device behavior. In fact, miniaturization brings about the need of accounting for physical effects that are of less importance in larger devices. The talk will outline the evolution of the physical models of the deterministic type, and the parallel evolution of numerical techniques that have been devised for solving the model equations.
Massimo Rudan received a degree in electrical engineering in 1973 and a degree in physics in 1976, both from the University of Bologna, Italy. His research interests are in the field of physics of carrier transport and numerical analysis of semiconductor devices and solid-state sensors. In 1986, he became a visiting scientist, on a one-year assignment, at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center at Yorktown Heights, NY, studying the discretization techniques for the Boltzmann transport equation. In 1990 he became Full Professor of Electronics, and in 2021 Professor Emeritus, at the University of Bologna. An IEEE Life Fellow, and a recipient of the 1998 Körber Foundation Award, Massimo Rudan has coordinated several research projects funded by the European Commission, international Companies and Foundations, the National Council of Research, and the National Ministry of University and Research. M.R. has authored about 350 papers in international journals or proceedings of international conferences in the field of physical modelling and numerical analysis of solid-state devices; he is author, co-author, or editor of 14 books. He is one of the founders of the Advanced Research Center for Electronics Systems, founded in 2001 at the University of Bologna.