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 | Nanotech 2003 Vol. 2
Technical Proceedings of the 2003 Nanotechnology Conference and Trade Show, Volume 2
Chapter 10: MEMS Modeling |
| | MEMulator: A fast and accurate Geometric Modeling, Visualization and Mesh Generation Tool for 3D MEMS Design and Simulation | | Authors: | T. Udeshi and E. Parker | | Affilation: | Zyvex Corporation, US | | Pages: | 480 - 483 | | Keywords: | TCAD, 3D modeling, mesh generation, voxel algorithms | | Abstract: | We present novel voxel-based algorithms and their application to Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) design and simulation. Voxel-based techniques are known for their robustness and flexibility and have been used for MEMS design and simulation. However, they have several problems:-1. Memory inefficient: Since voxels discretize space, this representation is memory-intensive. 2. Computationally Expensive: Any operation performed on the voxels requires visiting a large number of them, thus increasing computational cost. 3. Visualization: Isosurface extraction is required for visualizing the surface. Standard isosurface extraction algorithms are computationally expensive and yield a large number of surface triangles. 4. Finite Element Mesh Generation: Hitherto there has been very little work done on mesh generation directly from voxels. Most mesh generation algorithms need a surface representation of the geometry. In this paper, we describe how we tackle all these shortcomings, with novel algorithms and data structures which have been implemented in the PC-based MEMulator tool. We also introduce the MEMulator’s Python-based interface and the operations supported |  | View paper | | ISBN: | 0-9728422-1-7 |
| Pages: | 600 |
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