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3.4.2 Comparison

Response Surface Methodology methods are also used in other TCAD tools namely DEBORA [9], the TMA framework [59], and the SILVACO framework [47]. Unlike the presented RSM module they do not use transformations for the input and output parameters. In order to approximate response surfaces with the same accuracy as with transformations they require polynomials of third or higher order and therefore need a larger number of sample points for solving the linear system.




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