Sustainable Leadership is Built on Innovation
As a driver of innovation in simulation technology, research and development (R&D) plays a dominant role at GTS. Besides internal research and enhancements of GTS products, we carry out contract research and consulting. Global TCAD Solutions has been a partner in several national and European (FP7 and H2020) R&D projects and provides project research for major semiconductor companies and foundries. This reflects the company’s continued interest in state-of-the art research, which has led to numerous publications at high-ranked semiconductor conferences and in well-known journals.
Current and Finished Research Projects
ARCTIC
(Advanced Research on Cryogenic Technologies for Innovative Computing)
Horizon Europe project, 2024-2027
The ARCTIC project is a European consortium of 36 partners developing cryogenic electronics both for conventional applications, ranging from everyday and high-performance computing to sensing and communication technologies, and quantum computing platforms. The initiative aims to establish a complete European supply chain for both cryogenic microsystems and the control technology of quantum processors. GTS plays two key roles in ARCTIC. The first among these is by providing and extending its modeling capabilities to allow for accurate and stable TCAD simulations by consortium members in the ultra-low-carrier operational regime in which cryogenic technologies run. The second is to use these modeling functionalities to provide both device- and system-level design guidance and DTCO for targeted cryogenic systems.
Find out more on the project page.
SENSOTERIC
(smart SENSOr analog fronT-end powered by Emerging Reconfigurable DevICes)
Horizon Europe project, 2024-2027
SENSOTERIC aims to develop a reconfigurable platform combining a generic analog front-end (AFE) sensor interface and a dedicated reconfigurable sensor transducer (RST) for cancer biomarker detection. The project leverages Reconfigurable Field Effect Transistors (RFETs) integrated into 22nm FDSOI CMOS technology, which can dynamically switch between p-type and n-type behavior, and Negative Differential Resistance (NDR) technologies. GTS contributes by providing insights into RFET working mechanisms, studying NDR in ultrathin Germanium-channel transistors, and supporting circuit design through Design-Technology-Co-Optimization (DTCO). The doping-free, runtime-reconfigurable technologies developed will benefit diverse sensor applications, from environmental and automotive monitoring to medical diagnostics.
Find out more on the project page.
FVLLMONTI 
(Ferroelectric Vertical Low energy Low latency low volume Modules for Neural network Transformers In 3D)
Horizon Europe 2020 project, duration 2021-2025
FVLLMONTI brings vertical nanowire field-effect transistors (VNWFETs) to unlock the full potential of truly 3D neuromorphic computing performance and density. Through actual VNWFETs fabrication setting up a design-technology co-optimization approach, the FVLLMONTI vision is to develop regular 3D stacked hardware layers of NNs empowering the most efficient machine translation thanks to a fine-grain hardware / software co-optimisation. The consortium is a strong partnership with complementary expertise and extensive track-records in the fields of nanoelectronics, unconventional logic design, reliability, system‐level design, machine translation, cognition science.
NEDEVS
(NanoElectronic DEVice Simulation)
FFG national bridge project, duration 2020-2023
Quantum transport models will be analyzed with respect to their applicability to emerging technologies and their usability in device TCAD. One transport model which represents a good trade off between physical accuracy and computational demand will be selected and integrated in the GTS Nano Device Simulator and validated on modern semiconductor devices.
PASTE-DTCO
(Process-Aware STructure Emulation for Device-Technology Co-Optimization)
FFG national bridge young scientists project, duration 2020-2022
Efficient hierarchical process simulator/emulator to study process variability from its physical source to its impact on the device geometry. Develop compact process models to create process-aware structures including variability for DTCO.
CDL-SDS
(Christian Doppler Laboratory for Single-Defect Spectroscopy in semiconductor devices)
Christian Doppler Research Association (CDG) project, duration 2019-2025
Characterization, modelling, and simulation of single defects in SiC and GaN devices.
TCAD-NCFET
(Technology Computer Aided Design of Negative Capacitance and Ferro-Electric Transistors)
FFG national bridge project, duration 2018-2019
Development and verification of 3D TCAD compatible models of ferroelectric devices.
MORA FLASH
(Modeling of RAdiation effects in FLASH memories)
FFG and CAS joint project, duration 2016-2019
Modeling and characterization of radiation effects and single event upsets in flash memory devices.
QTSMoS
(high performance Quantum Transport Solver using Modular Supercomputing)
FFG national bridge project, duration 2015-2017
Development of algorithms and solvers for quantum transport in high performance computing environment.
WAYTOGO FAST
(Which Architecture Yields Two Other Generations Of Fully depleted Advanced Substrate and Technologies)
EU H2020-ECSEL project, duration 2015-2017
Advanced CMOS TCAD Modeling of upcoming FDSOI N14 and N10 nodes.
Read more at cordis project page
MoRV
(Modelling Reliability under Variability)
EU FP7-ICT project, duration 2014-2016
Create a quantum mechanical description and based on that simplified but accurate aging models of transistors, logic gates and entire system components.
Read more at cordis project page
NeGFQTS
(Next Generation Framework for Quantum Transport Solvers)
FFG national project, duration 2013-2015
Multi-dimensional solver for ballistic quantum transport.
Read more at IuE/TU project page