Erasmus Langer
Siegfried Selberherr
Oskar Baumgartner
Hajdin Ceric
Johann Cervenka
Siddhartha Dhar
Robert Entner
Otmar Ertl
Wolfgang Gös
Klaus-Tibor Grasser
Philipp Hehenberger
René Heinzl
Clemens Heitzinger
Andreas Hössinger
Gerhard Karlowatz
Markus Karner
Hans Kosina
Ling Li
Gregor Meller
Goran Milovanovic
Mihail Nedjalkov
Alexandre Nentchev
Roberto Orio
Vassil Palankovski
Mahdi Pourfath
Philipp Schwaha
Viktor Sverdlov
Oliver Triebl
Stephan Enzo Ungersböck
Martin-Thomas Vasicek
Stanislav Vitanov
Martin Wagner
Paul-Jürgen Wagner
Thomas Windbacher
Robert Wittmann

Philipp Schwaha
Dipl.-Ing.
schwaha(!at)iue.tuwien.ac.at
Biography:
Philipp Schwaha was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1977. He studied electrical engineering at the Technische Universität Wien, where he received the degree Diplomingenieur in 2004. He joined the Institute for Microelectronics in June 2004, where he is currently working on his doctoral degree. His research activities include circuit and device simulation, device modeling, and software development.

An Interdisciplinary Web Application

Making use of the GSSE and using expertise acquired from research in the field of TCAD, it was possible to develop simulations for problems from other disciplines of research. For example, the simulation of a relaxation problem of electric charges can be applied to problems from the field of biology, such as to describe the electric fields generated by certain species of fish. The shape of the simulated fish is shown in the accompanying figure. The area generating the electric field is shown in red. In order to provide an easily accessible yet powerful interface, which can also be employed in education, a web interface to the simulation has been created. The major simulation parameters can thereby easily be adjusted, making the simulation more accessible to domain experts who have no previous experience with simulations. The arrangement of the simulation domain is shown in the lower part of the figure. It includes the fish along with an underwater obstacle. The web application is highly modular and makes extensive use of standard components. The modular nature provides an excellent opportunity to load balance several incoming requests to different calculation hosts. In addition to the ability to delegate the actual simulation transparently to various hosts, a caching mechanism has also been included to conserve computational resources. This keeps the load of the web server to a minimum and thereby ensures good responsiveness of the interface to user requests. The results of the simulation are post-processed, visualized again using modules, and subsequently presented to the user via the web interface.


Top: The geometry used to simulate the electrically active fish. Center: The relaxation equation. Bottom: The simulation domain.


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