Simulation of Laser-Based Two-Photon Absorption Induced Charge Carrier Generation in Silicon

Numerical simulation software is used to calculate quantitatively the two-photon absorption-induced carrier-density distributions generated under conditions that are experimentally relevant for single-event effects studies. The results provide valuable insight into how the magnitudes and shapes of the charge carrier distributions evolve over a large range of experimental conditions and the impacts this has for different device geometries. Furthermore, values of integrated charge are determined that can be more directly correlated with experimental observables.

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