HEAT
Key Applications
- Thermal waveguide tuning
- Waveguide integrated biosensors
- Photothermal heating
- Loss-less optical switches
- Heat flow in solids
Except for below applications, you can find more examples on Application Gallery
Key Features
Finite Element IDE
- 1D/2D/3D modeling
- Import STL, GDSII, and STEP
- Parameterizable simulation objects
- Domain partitioned solids for easy property definition
- Geometry-linked sources and monitors
- Automatic mesh refinement based on geometry, materials, doping, refractive index, and optical or heat generation
Comprehensive Material Models
- Flexible visual database
- More than 500 customizable electronic and thermal properties and models for accurate simulation of complex effects
- Scriptable material properties
Heat Transport
- 2D/3D finite element heat transfer solver
- steady-state and transient simulation
- Comprehensive thermal material models
- Joule heating from electrical conduction
- Heat flux, convection and radiation
- Automatic mesh refinement based in import heat profiles
Self-consistent Charge/Heat Modeling
- Self-heating effects
- High-current devices
- Requires both CHARGE and HEAT licenses
Highly integrated interoperable solvers
- Self-consistent charge and heat transport simulation
- Perform multiphysics simulations
- Photovoltaic (FDTD/DGTD, CHARGE & HEAT)
- Opto-thermal (FDTD/DGTD & HEAT)
- Plasmonics (DGTD & HEAT)