Geometry and Mesh Generators

• The program MKDEV [292,37] has been developed at the Institute for Microlelectronics and generates the geometry and the mesh for the device simulator MINIMOS-NT. MKDEV uses template and configuration files to create the geometry including an orthogonal mesh with the specified distributed quantities like doping concentrations using analytical doping profiles.
• CREATEORTHO [37] is a script that creates orthogonal meshes for the device simulator MINIMOS-NT. This tools allows a parameterized mesh generation to create Manhattan structures for device simulation.
• TRIANGLE [306] is a two-dimensional mesh generator for unstructured meshes which uses a DELAUNAY^4.15 triangulation and a VORONOI^4.16 tessellation [307,308,309,310].
• DELINK [311,312,313] has been developed at the Institute for Microlelectronics and is a three-dimensional mesh generator for unstructured meshes. This tool requires as input the specified geometry and provides as a result a mesh, which fulfills the DELAUNAY condition [309,310] and certain other constraints which can be additionally specified.
• SNMESH [40] is suite from SYNOPSYS that provides different meshing algorithms, which are capable of producing tensor product meshes and unstructured tetrahedron meshes according to user-defined constraints. For instance, constraints can be applied with respect to certain parameter values and geometric issues such as certain ranges for angles, aspect ratios, or differences of areas between two or more adjacent elements.