Skip to main content
U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Two-dimensional Green`s function Poisson solution appropriate for feature-scale microelectronics simulations

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/650153· OSTI ID:650153

This report describes the numerical procedure used to implement the Green`s function method for solving the Poisson equation in two-dimensional Cartesian coordinates. The procedure can determine the solution to a problem with any or all of applied voltage boundary conditions, dielectric media, floating (insulated) conducting media, dielectric surface charging, periodic (reflective) boundary conditions, and volumetric space charge. The numerical solution is reasonably fast, and the dimension of the linear problem to be solved is that of the number of elements needed to represent the surfaces, not the whole computational volume. The method of solution is useful in the simulation of plasma particle motion in the vicinity of complex surface structures as found in microelectronics plasma processing applications. A FORTRAN implementation of this procedure is available from the author.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC04-94AL85000
OSTI ID:
650153
Report Number(s):
SAND--98-0537; ON: DE98004182; BR: DP0102011
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English