Hello everyone,
I am currently working with Allpix2 and need to import electric field data from TCAD software. Allpix2 requires the electric field data to be in two specific file formats: .grd and .data, in order to produce .init or .apf files.
I am aware that many software packages can calculate electric fields, but they do not necessarily provide the output in these specific formats.
Can anyone recommend software that can directly output electric field data in .grd and .data formats, as required by Allpix2? Thank you in advance for your help!
Best regards,
Dear @manuela
the MeshConverter tool provided with Allpix Squared converts from adaptive meshes to regular meshes e.g. by interpolation. The adaptive mesh files usually are separated into a grid file (with the mesh points) and data files (with the field values per mesh point).
Right now, the tool reads from DF-ISE files, a TCAD exchange format e.g. written by Synopsys Sentaurus. If your tool does not provide a conversion to DF-ISE, we would be more than happy to learn which tool that is and see together how a parser plugin for the MeshConverter would have to look like to read that format directly.
Best,
Simon
Dear Simon,
Thank you for your response. I am currently using Silvaco TCAD for my simulations. Silvaco doesn’t natively export data in DF-ISE format. Could you provide some guidance or suggestions on how we might create a parser plugin for the MeshConverter tool to read Silvaco’s output formats?
Best regards,
Manuella
Dear @manuela ,
please send me an email.
Best regards,
Marco Bomben