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New Physics-Guided Diffusion Model Enhances TCAD Device Simulation

Researchers have developed PCGD, a novel Physics-Guided Conditional Graph Diffusion framework designed for TCAD device simulation. This method operates directly on unstructured TCAD meshes to predict coupled electrostatic and carrier density fields, overcoming the high computational costs of traditional methods. PCGD integrates a Condition-Aware MeshGraphNet denoiser with a physics-guided hybrid objective, progressively enforcing physical constraints through iterative diffusion. The framework achieves a sub-percent mean relative field error on a challenging benchmark, significantly outperforming existing regression and diffusion baselines, while also demonstrating robust transferability to unseen topologies with reduced data and parameters. AI

IMPACT This new framework could significantly accelerate semiconductor device engineering by providing a more efficient and physically accurate simulation method.

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New Physics-Guided Diffusion Model Enhances TCAD Device Simulation

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Yihan Zhang, Zhiteng Zhang, Kun Chen, Chen Wang ·

    PCGD: Physics-Guided Conditional Graph Diffusion for TCAD Device Simulation

    arXiv:2606.29272v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Technology computer-aided design (TCAD) semiconductor device simulation is fundamentally constrained by the high computational cost of iteratively solving coupled drift-diffusion equations. Existing ML surrogates either reduce inter…